shuck

noun

1. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).

   “There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks.”

2. (slang)A fraud; a scam.
3. (slang)A phony.
4. (European)A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.

verb

1. (transitive)To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).

   “Shall we shuck walnuts?”

2. (transitive)To remove (any outer covering).

   “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."”

3. (slang, transitive)To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
4. (intransitive, slang, transitive)To fool; to hoax.
5. (dialectal)To shake; shiver.
6. (dialectal)To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
7. (dialectal)To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
8. (dialectal)To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
9. (dialectal)To walk at a slow trot.

name

1. A surname.