shuck n
2 [1976] 1985 LEHR & BEST (eds) 168 "Skipper Dan": For in my old clothes-bag some rags I have got;/A pair of old shucks I've tied up to my bunk,/And if rags can buy liquor this night I'll be drunk.
5 The mantle or cone-shaped portion of a squid including the caudal or tail fins; that part of the squid which remains when the viscera, head, arms and tentacles are removed.
P 1-89 [The shuck is] 'what's left of a squid after you take the pip out'. P 326-89 The shuck was eight feet long. P 296-89 'What's a feed of shucks?' 'Squid. The body part. It is gutted, pipped.'
