"hucklebuck" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck.",
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        {
          "text": "1948, Paul Williams, The hucklebuck, quoted in Talkin' that talk (1986), page 168"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Roy Alfred (lyrics), Andy Gibson (music)",
          "text": "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."
        },
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          "ref": "1995, John W. Roberts, From Hucklebuck to Hip Hop: Social Dance in the African-American Community, →ISBN:",
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        {
          "ref": "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",
          "roman": "Candy, pralines, and hucklebucks. . .",
          "text": "I am turtle soup, gator soup, tenderloin catfish, shrimp saute\nShrimp Samantha, fried shrimp, stuffed shrimp, peeled ice\nshrimp, Crabmeat au gratin, berled crab, stuffed crab, Shrimp\nNewberg, Shrimp etoufeé, Bananas Foster, Hubig’s Pies, Roman"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Mona Lisa Saloy, Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, Truman State University Press, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "So, we made soul food, hucklebucks,\ncorn pone, and bread pudding,\ngumbo, and greyas.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Beverly Jacques Anderson, Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47:",
          "text": "We waited for the Good Humor ice cream truck to get ice cream on a stick, huckle bucks, popsicles, or vanilla or chocolate ice cream in a small cup.",
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          "ref": "1996, Stephen J. Cannell, Final Victim, Avon Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 107:",
          "text": "[…] I had a patrolman pull over a hot roller 'bout two hours ago. One a'them boys in the stolen car opened up on my man, who's in Atlanta General breathing through a tube and, according to the docs, ain't never gonna wake up. […] If they find those hucklebucks, I'm gonna have a hollow-point street dance on my hands, but in my spare time, what can I do to serve my Federal government?\"",
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          "ref": "2003 March 23, M1ahearn [username], “Re: NBC>>Ben Affleck is a MORON”, in rec.music.artists.springsteen (Usenet):",
          "text": "Who? I'm guessing a country singer of some reknown - I have heard the name before but I have no idea what he said or sang. Anyway, I will admit that when a celebrity with conservative beliefs states his opinion the response is usually more restained,^([sic]) but there's still a response. And a lot of it is of the \"he should stick to singing to hucklebucks / he should stick to blowing stuff up in movies\" type responses.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2006 April 5, Jeff White, “Re: Darwin Answered His Own Evolution Questions”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):",
          "text": "who cares if you did? does it say you're not sophisticated if you voted for a hucklebuck? maybe you have money in petroleum or halliburton.",
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  ],
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  "etymology_text": "The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck.",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "hucklebucking",
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    {
      "form": "hucklebucked",
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          "ref": "1948, Paul Williams, \"The Hucklebuck\", quoted in Jean-Paul Levet, Talkin' That Talk, Soul Bag (1986), page 168",
          "text": "\"We jumped* and boped*\nand stamped around the floor,\nwe hucklebucked until my back is sore\nbut honey, wont you waltz with me once more*."
        },
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          "ref": "1957, Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, Houghton Mifflin, published 1957, page 58:",
          "text": "The guys stood around the jukebox applejacking and hucklebucking to the music...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Wesley Brown, Tragic Magic, Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 37:",
          "text": "[…] Thanks to jazz my toes don't knock no more. I cold-turkeyed to Bird doin 'Now's the Time,' and hucklebucked out a the spell of heroin. […]",
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          "ref": "2005, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 151:",
          "text": "Macon hucklebucked eleven flights rather than risk one elevator stare.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, Jay Nelson, Cold Creek, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 646:",
          "text": "It is only a game. I join the rhythmic clapping that always follows the fight song while the last of the players extracts himself from the stands and hucklebucks his way to join the milling, weight-shifting, pocketjammed team, […]",
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          "text": "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."
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          "roman": "Candy, pralines, and hucklebucks. . .",
          "text": "I am turtle soup, gator soup, tenderloin catfish, shrimp saute\nShrimp Samantha, fried shrimp, stuffed shrimp, peeled ice\nshrimp, Crabmeat au gratin, berled crab, stuffed crab, Shrimp\nNewberg, Shrimp etoufeé, Bananas Foster, Hubig’s Pies, Roman"
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          "ref": "2005, Mona Lisa Saloy, Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, Truman State University Press, →ISBN, page 91:",
          "text": "So, we made soul food, hucklebucks,\ncorn pone, and bread pudding,\ngumbo, and greyas.",
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          "ref": "2011, Beverly Jacques Anderson, Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47:",
          "text": "We waited for the Good Humor ice cream truck to get ice cream on a stick, huckle bucks, popsicles, or vanilla or chocolate ice cream in a small cup.",
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        },
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          "text": "[…] Thanks to jazz my toes don't knock no more. I cold-turkeyed to Bird doin 'Now's the Time,' and hucklebucked out a the spell of heroin. […]",
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        },
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          "text": "It is only a game. I join the rhythmic clapping that always follows the fight song while the last of the players extracts himself from the stands and hucklebucks his way to join the milling, weight-shifting, pocketjammed team, […]",
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