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shuck

[shuhk] / ʃʌk /


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The actor learned to shuck oysters and clean fish to play a mentor to a teenage Anthony Bourdain in the new movie “Tony.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

One of my fondest food-related memories growing up is watching my father shuck corn at our local supermarket.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023

I’ll put one of my oyster plates in the freezer while I shuck the oysters from the farmers market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

The tasting room features a “Shuck Shack,” visitors can learn how to shuck fresh local oysters.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

You’re the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

During his $45 two-hour tours that embark from a dock at Schooner Landing, Holmes offers a steady patter of oyster-related wisecracks, as his partner, Olga Oros, shucks and hands out shellfish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

In 2019’s “Shazam!,” also directed by David F. Sandberg, there was something rather charming about Levi’s boyish performance, a grown man playing Superman with all the aw shucks wonder of a teenager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

Some of the lines are more meta than others, with a character accusing Parton of stealing her man and Parton saying in her trademark, aw shucks tone, "I know people talk but I'm no witch."

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2022

The NFL issued a $10 million fine — so, shucks, poor Dan will have to put his next super yacht on layaway — and shifted day-to-day control of the team to his wife, Tanya.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022

They were tearing at the shucks with their needle-sharp teeth.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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