shuck

1. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).Examples: "Shall we shuck walnuts?"transitive

2. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).Examples: "I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool."; "[...] but what had actually happened was that the wheel of one of the coaches became detached from its axle, or, in the more expressive American argot, the train "shucked off a wheel near Everett.""transitive

3. (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.slangtransitive

4. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.intransitiveslangtransitive

1. (dialectal) To shake; shiver.dialectal

2. (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.dialectal

3. (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.dialectal

4. (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.dialectal

5. (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.dialectal

1. (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.Synonyms: padfoot, shrikerEuropean