Definder - what does the word mean?

What is shucking and jiving?

a hussle, or rip-off.

{in reference to a person who just hussled someone}

"Quinn gave him the ol' shuck & jive"

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Shucking and jiving - what is it?

The act of moving your body from side to side while twisting your words to make a conversation to pursuade someone to belive in what you are saying is the truth.

Rob was doing the Shuck N Jive with his wife when trying to convince her that it was time to move out of town.

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What does "shucking and jiving" mean?

to try and wank and be cool at the same time.

as chris rock once said somewhere (I can't remember where from) "Ain't no shuckin' and jivin'"

David: Did you see Lee in the club chasing away all the hotties?

Percy: Yeah man, niggah was shuckin' and jivin'.

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Shucking and jiving - what does it mean?

Shuck: To get rid of, ditch, throw away. To try to shed your true image in favor of a false one.
Jive: Trying to adopt a new social status, pretending to be "all that" + a bag of pentium chips.

Rig likes to shuck and jive about his "new" system. Man, dude is running a 286.

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Shucking and jiving - meaning

Not the whole truth; or manipulating something to get it your way.

Person 1: I don't believe you can still do that
Person 2: I can so *demonstrates*

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Shucking and jiving - definition

A phrase no one knew was racist until Yahoo said so.

"Hey man, did you hear shuck and jive is racist?"

"Yeah. Yahoo is my homepage too, man."

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Shucking and jiving - slang

To shuck and jive" originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards. The expression was documented as being in wide usage in the 1920s, but may have originated much earlier.

"Shucking and jiving" was a tactic of both survival and resistance. A slave, for instance, could say eagerly, "Oh, yes, Master," and have no real intention to obey. Or an African-American man could pretend to be working hard at a task he was ordered to do, but might put up this pretense only when under observation. Both would be instances of "doin' the old shuck 'n jive."

It has been adopted into non-Afroamerican speech, with a reference to behavior adopted in order to avoid criticism.

In order to keep my job, I had to do the shuck and jive!

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Shucking and jiving

To sit around and bullshit with your coworkers instead of doing your assigned work; to slack off. Can be identified with the use of the term "oooooowwww ggggiiirrrrllll"

Tisha, Monica, and CiCi sat around the office shucking and jiving all afternoon after the boss left early.

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Shucking and jiving

The science of appearing busy but actually doing nothing.

Dude, quit shucking and jiving and get back to work.

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