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backwards
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæk.w?(?)dz/
Etymology 1
From backward +? -s. See also -s (“used in the formation of certain adverbs: backwards, downwards, inwards, etc.”).
Adjective
backwards (comparative more backwards, superlative most backwards)
- Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.
Derived terms
- backwardsness
Etymology 2
From Middle English bakwardis, bakwardis, a variant of Middle English bakwarde, bakward (“backward”). Equivalent to backward +? -s.
Adverb
backwards (comparative more backwards, superlative most backwards)
- Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.
Related terms
Anagrams
- drawbacks
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hucklebuck
English
Etymology
The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck.
Pronunciation
Noun
hucklebuck (plural hucklebucks)
- A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll.
- 1948, Paul Williams, The hucklebuck, quoted in Talkin' that talk (1986), page 168
- 1949, Roy Alfred (lyrics), Andy Gibson (music):
- 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.
- 1995, John W. Roberts, From Hucklebuck to Hip Hop: Social Dance in the African-American Community ?ISBN
- (Louisiana) A treat consisting of frozen Kool-Aid served in a dixie cup.
- 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:
- I am turtle soup, gator soup, tenderloin catfish, shrimp saute
- Shrimp Samantha, fried shrimp, stuffed shrimp, peeled ice
- shrimp, Crabmeat au gratin, berled crab, stuffed crab, Shrimp
- Newberg, Shrimp etoufeé, Bananas Foster, Hubig’s Pies, Roman
- Candy, pralines, and hucklebucks. . .
- 2005, Mona Lisa Saloy, Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, Truman State University Press (2005), ?ISBN, page 91:
- So, we made soul food, hucklebucks,
- corn pone, and bread pudding,
- gumbo, and greyas.
- 2011, Beverly Jacques Anderson, Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village, iUniverse (2011), ?ISBN, page 47:
- 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.
- 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:
- (slang, derogatory) A hillbilly or otherwise culturally backwards person.
- 1996, Stephen J. Cannell, Final Victim, Avon Books (1997), ?ISBN, page 107:
- […] 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?"
- 1996, Stephen J. Cannell, Final Victim, Avon Books (1997), ?ISBN, page 107:
Verb
hucklebuck (third-person singular simple present hucklebucks, present participle hucklebucking, simple past and past participle hucklebucked)
- To dance the hucklebuck.
- 1948, Paul Williams, "The Hucklebuck", quoted in Jean-Paul Levet, Talkin' That Talk, Soul Bag (1986), ?ISBN, page 168:
- "We jumped* and boped*
- and stamped around the floor,
- we hucklebucked until my back is sore
- but honey, wont[sic] you waltz with me once more*.
- 1957, Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, Houghton Mifflin (1957), page 58:
- The guys stood around the jukebox applejacking and hucklebucking to the music...
- 1995, Wesley Brown, Tragic Magic, Ecco Press (1995), ?ISBN, page 37:
- […] 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. […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hucklebuck.
- 1948, Paul Williams, "The Hucklebuck", quoted in Jean-Paul Levet, Talkin' That Talk, Soul Bag (1986), ?ISBN, page 168:
- To move quickly, with quick movements and, often, going in circles.
- 2005, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, Three Rivers Press (2005), ?ISBN, page 151:
- Macon hucklebucked eleven flights rather than risk one elevator stare.
- 2011, Jay Nelson, Cold Creek, Xlibris (2011), ?ISBN, page 646:
- 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, […]
- 2005, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, Three Rivers Press (2005), ?ISBN, page 151:
References
- Chuck Taggart, "A Lexicon of New Orleans Terminology and Speech"
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