huck

See also: Huck

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʌk/

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• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /hʊk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.

Verb

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw or chuck.

   Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw

   He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.

   • 2008, Stephen King, A Very Tight Place:

     Mostly these portable toilets are just thin molded plastic […] But at construction sites, we sheet-metal the sides. Cladding, it's called. Otherwise, people come along and punch holes through them. […] Or kids will come along and huck rocks through the roofs, just to hear the sound it makes.

2. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
3. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
4. (transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee a long distance.
5. (intransitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
6. (mountain biking) To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.

   A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.

   If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.

7. (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
8. (transitive, whitewater kayaking) To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.

   I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.

Noun

huck (plural hucks)

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
2. (skiing, snowboarding) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

Etymology 2

Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).

Noun

huck (plural hucks)

1. (dialect) A person's hip.

Related terms

• huckle

Etymology 3

From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).

Verb

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)

1. (dated) To haggle in trading.

Anagrams

• CUHK, HKCU

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Alternative forms

• huch

Etymology

From Middle English hucke (“to depart, proceed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʊk/

Verb

huck

1. to come
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 84:

     Huck nigher; y'art scuddeen; fartoo zo hachee?

     Come nearer; you're rubbing your back; why so ill tempered?

Derived terms

• t'uck

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84