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English
Etymology
From shuck + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
shucker (plural shuckers)
- Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.
1927, Charles M. Russell, “Bill’s Shelby Hotel”, in Trails Plowed Under:“Bill was born near Des Moines, Iowa, and as a boy was knowed as the champion lightweight corn shucker of Hog Bristle County. […] ”
1988, Edmund White, chapter 9, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters.
- (humorous) Someone who shucks or removes something.
1986 April 14, Anastasia Toufexis, “Hey, Are You Rotating?”, in Time:The Kroger supermarket chain […] agreed to weigh out dieters as well as their vegetables. Some 12,000 hopeful pound shuckers herded through the chain’s groceries during the first weekend.
- A device that shucks produce, such as a corn shucker.
1983 September 26, Pico Iyer, “A Bumper Crop of Problems”, in Time:Friends with powerful connections helped him get a corn shucker; he knows of 80 other farmers who are on the waiting list for those machines in a region that is to receive only four during the next two years.
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