Definition of "shuck"

shuck¹

/ʃʌk/

noun
plural shucks
1. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
  Quotations
  There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks.
  1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 46
2. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
3. (slang) A phony.
verb
third-person singular simple present shucks, present participle shucking, simple past and past participle shucked
1. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
2. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
  Quotations
  [...] but what had actually happened was that the wheel of one of the coaches became detached from its axle, or, in the more expressive American argot, the train "shucked off a wheel near Everett."
  1941 April, “Notes and News: The Reason Why”, in Railway Magazine, page 182
3. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.

shuck²

/ʃʌk/

verb
third-person singular simple present shucks, present participle shucking, simple past and past participle shucked
1. (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
2. (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
3. (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
4. (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
5. (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.

shuck³

/ʃʌk/

noun
plural shucks
1. (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.