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- noun A rhythmic
dance from the time just prior torock and roll . - noun New Orleans A
treat consisting offrozen Kool-Aid served in adixie cup . - noun slang, derogatory A
hillbilly or otherwiseculturally backwards person. - verb To dance the hucklebuck.
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As Shrdlu'soeuvregrew, his research was cited by others; a specialist on Kim Jong-il's collection of DVDs; the author of a monograph on the NFL Cardinals 'dismal tenure in St. Louis; a history of “soul” dances — boogaloo, shingaling, hucklebuck — of the 1960s.
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Meanwhile, Peggy and Duck are doing the hucklebuck somewhere in the fifth dimension while Betty employs Mary McCarthy's The Group as bathtub reading, trying not to suds up the pages.
Mad Men Enters the McCarthy Era: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Meanwhile, Peggy and Duck are doing the hucklebuck somewhere in the fifth dimension while Betty employs Mary McCarthy's The Group as bathtub reading, trying not to suds up the pages.
James Wolcott's Blog Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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"Back in the 60s, you couldn†™ t do the hucklebuck because it was nasty," Checker told the crowd.
The Times of India 2010
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For another, there's hucklebuck Danny Glover at his big-black-man sweatiest, channeling 1977 Fred Williamson and running an elite police squad in Crime Ridden Future Los Angeles made up of the infinitely cool Rubén Blades, Maria Conchito Alonzo, and Bill Paxton.
Baltimore City Paper 2010
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March 2nd, 2009 at 5: 49 pm hucklebuck says: vinny vinny vinny,
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