To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
Used in a Sentence
huck
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for huck.
Editorial note
It took Twain 8 years to write Huck Finn and it was finally published when he was 49.
Examples19
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of huck gathered in one view.
To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
A surname.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for huck.
verb
To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
verb
To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
noun
A surname.
verb
(transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee a long distance.
Example sentences
It took Twain 8 years to write Huck Finn and it was finally published when he was 49.
For example, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were disobedient in spite of societal pressure.
Being able to jump a flight anywhere in the world tomorrow, huck an M5 around the Nordschleife, or lay around Punta del Este for weeks.
Or, you know, we could huck our failed systems out with the trash instead.
I think the problem was that you were forced to learn formal grammar, not that you were forced to read Huck Finn.
Books like Huck Finn are critical to building the model in your head that every writer has a different perspective, that they will present differently, and even perceive differently.
I can't imagine a synopsis that would entice someone to read Huck Finn if they were similarly predisposed to disregarding works based on racial comparisons, but Huck Finn's 'dust jacket' description is a far cry from its sum.
For example, a kid reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn might unknowingly repeat a word they learned from that book that we consider extremely offensive today.
I had similar thoughts when reading Huck Finn.
For me, books like Huck Fin were how I learned English, I don't think we even had grammar lessons(some weird teaching style that was popular in CA at the time).
I think for your disaster scenario to be taken seriously there would need to be major cultural works--peers of Harry Potter, Huck Finn, and NIN--that were products of the Kickstarter process.
(Is Huck exaggerating to you the reader?
Quote examples
"...huck the whole thing and rewrite it in assembly." What are the functions in libc that you truly need and use?
I'm delighted that you like "Huck Finn".
If "stylistically abusing" punctuation is worth of blocking an ebook, then I have to assume Huck Finn and Cloud Atlas are next on the list of books to remove for their heavily punctuated attempts to represent speech patterns.
Even at a young age people can understand that Huck Finn is a novel told from the perspective of a southern boy in the 1800s, not how you’re “supposed to write” when in another class you have to write and essay about Marie Curie.
Proper noun examples
Huck Finn, 1984 and Animal Farm, Brave New World, Jane Eyre, Lord of the Rings come to mind.
As far as I can tell, anytime a dialect is used in a book (Huck Finn, William Faulkner) - it's done to demonstrate a character who speaks a particular way.
I originally read a reference to it in Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use huck in a sentence?
It took Twain 8 years to write Huck Finn and it was finally published when he was 49.
What does huck mean?
To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
What part of speech is huck?
huck is commonly used as verb, noun.