hucklebuck

== English == === Etymology === The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈhʌkl.bʌk/ === Noun === hucklebuck (plural hucklebucks) A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll. 1948, Paul Williams, The hucklebuck, quoted in Talkin' that talk (1986), page 168 1949, Roy Alfred (lyrics), Andy Gibson (music): It's the dance you should know, when the lights are down low, / Grab your baby, then go, do the hucklebuck, do the hucklebuck, / If you don't know how to do it, boy, you're out of luck, / Push your partner out, then you hunch your back, / Have a little movement in your sacroiliac, / Wiggle like a snake, wobble like a duck, / That's the way you do it when you do the hucklebuck. (New Orleans) A treat consisting of frozen Kool-Aid served in a dixie cup. 1988, Arthur Pfister, "My Name is New Orleans", re-printed in Arthur Pfister, My Name is New Orleans: 40 Years of Poetry & Other Jazz, Margaret Media, Inc. (2009) →ISBN, page 5: I am turtle soup, gator soup, tenderloin catfish, shrimp saute Shrimp Samantha, fried shrimp, stuffed shrimp, peeled ice shrimp, Crabmeat au gratin, berled crab, stuffed crab, Shrimp Newberg, Shrimp etoufeé, Bananas Foster, Hubig’s Pies, Roman Candy, pralines, and hucklebucks. . . (slang, derogatory) A hillbilly or otherwise culturally backwards person. === Verb === hucklebuck (third-person singular simple present hucklebucks, present participle hucklebucking, simple past and past participle hucklebucked) To dance the hucklebuck. 1948, Paul Williams, "The Hucklebuck", quoted in Jean-Paul Levet, Talkin' That Talk, Soul Bag (1986), →ISBN, page 168: "We jumped* and boped* and stamped around the floor, we hucklebucked until my back is sore but honey, wont[sic] you waltz with me once more*. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hucklebuck. To move quickly, with quick movements and, often, going in circles. === References === Chuck Taggart, "A Lexicon of New Orleans Terminology and Speech"