Shuck and jive
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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. -
A phrase no one knew was racist until Yahoo said so.
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Not the whole truth; or manipulating something to get it your way.
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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. -
to try and wank and be cool at the same time.
as chris rock once said somewhere (I cant remember where from) Aint no shuckin and jivin
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To act like a nigger.
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To act like a nigger.
You still alive..
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To act like a nigger.
@little_girl trash ass person with a trash comment.
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To act like a nigger.
@little_girl We niggers love you!
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