shucks
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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
Whenever she gets asked about her historic home runs, the red-hot, red-haired hitter is like, shucks: “I mean, it’s incredible,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
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
I had a chain-link finger stall for ripping open the shucks.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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