shucking

Verb (1)

shuck (third-person singular simple present shucks, present participle shucking, simple past and past participle shucked)

1. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
   • Shall we shuck walnuts?
2. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
   • I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
3. (slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
4. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To fool; to hoax.

Verb (2)

shuck (third-person singular simple present shucks, present participle shucking, simple past and past participle shucked)

1. (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
2. (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.

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