Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hucklebuck
Participle: hucklebucked
Gerund: hucklebucking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hucklebuck |
| you | hucklebuck |
| he;she;it | hucklebucks |
| we | hucklebuck |
| you | hucklebuck |
| they | hucklebuck |
Perfect
| I | have hucklebucked |
| you | have hucklebucked |
| he;she;it | has hucklebucked |
| we | have hucklebucked |
| you | have hucklebucked |
| they | have hucklebucked |
Past
| I | hucklebucked |
| you | hucklebucked |
| he;she;it | hucklebucked |
| we | hucklebucked |
| you | hucklebucked |
| they | hucklebucked |
Pluperfect
| I | had hucklebucked |
| you | had hucklebucked |
| he;she;it | had hucklebucked |
| we | had hucklebucked |
| you | had hucklebucked |
| they | had hucklebucked |
Future
| I | will hucklebuck |
| you | will hucklebuck |
| he;she;it | will hucklebuck |
| we | will hucklebuck |
| you | will hucklebuck |
| they | will hucklebuck |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hucklebucked |
| you | will have hucklebucked |
| he;she;it | will have hucklebucked |
| we | will have hucklebucked |
| you | will have hucklebucked |
| they | will have hucklebucked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hucklebuck |
| you | hucklebuck |
| he;she;it | hucklebuck |
| we | hucklebuck |
| you | hucklebuck |
| they | hucklebuck |
Perfect
| I | have hucklebucked |
| you | have hucklebucked |
| he;she;it | have hucklebucked |
| we | have hucklebucked |
| you | have hucklebucked |
| they | have hucklebucked |
Imperfect
| I | hucklebucked |
| you | hucklebucked |
| he;she;it | hucklebucked |
| we | hucklebucked |
| you | hucklebucked |
| they | hucklebucked |
Pluperfect
| I | had hucklebucked |
| you | had hucklebucked |
| he;she;it | had hucklebucked |
| we | had hucklebucked |
| you | had hucklebucked |
| they | had hucklebucked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hucklebuck |
| you | would hucklebuck |
| he;she;it | would hucklebuck |
| we | would hucklebuck |
| you | would hucklebuck |
| they | would hucklebuck |
Perfect
| I | would have hucklebucked |
| you | would have hucklebucked |
| he;she;it | would have hucklebucked |
| we | would have hucklebucked |
| you | would have hucklebucked |
| they | would have hucklebucked |
Imperative
| you | hucklebuck |
| we | Let's hucklebuck |
| you | hucklebuck |
Verbs conjugated like 'hucklebuck'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hucklebuck'
buckle,
buckler,
bullfuck,
chuckle,
cleck,
cluck,
facefuck,
fiddlefuck,
hackle,
halfback,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck.
Sample Sentences
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"We jumped* and boped*
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and stamped around the floor,
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we hucklebucked until my back is sore
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but honey, wont you waltz with me once more*. [1948, Paul Williams, "The Hucklebuck", quoted in Jean-Paul Levet, Talkin' That Talk, Soul Bag (1986), page 168]
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The guys stood around the jukebox applejacking and hucklebucking to the music... [1957, Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, Houghton Mifflin, published 1957, page 58:]
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[…] 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. […] [1995, Wesley Brown, Tragic Magic, Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 37:]
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Macon hucklebucked eleven flights rather than risk one elevator stare. [2005, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 151:]
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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, […] [2011, Jay Nelson, Cold Creek, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 646:]