- a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- something useless or worthless: They don't care shucks about the project.
- the shell of an oyster or clam.
- to remove the shucks from: to shuck corn.
- to remove or discard as or like shucks; peel off: to shuck one's clothes.
- to get rid of (often followed by off): a bad habit I couldn't shuck off for years.
- (used as a mild exclamation of disgust or regret.)
- to deceive or lie to.
- the outer covering of something, such as the husk of a grain of maize, a pea pod, or an oyster shell
- to remove the shucks from
- to throw off or remove (clothes, etc)
