Usually means: Remove outer covering from food.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. shuck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shuck: Merriam-Webster
  3. shuck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shuck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shuck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shuck: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shuck, shuck: Wordnik
  8. shuck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shuck, shuck: Wiktionary
  10. shuck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shuck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shuck: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shuck: Dictionary.com
  14. shuck (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Shuck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shuck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shuck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shuck: Rhymezone
  19. Shuck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. SHUCK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. shuck: FreeDictionary.org
  22. shuck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shuck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shuck (disambiguation), shuck: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shuck: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shuck: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shuck, shuck, shuck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shuck: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
noun:  (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
noun:  (slang) A phony.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
verb:  (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
verb:  (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
verb:  (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
verb:  (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
verb:  (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
verb:  (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
noun:  (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
noun:  A surname.

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