noun Street Slang

huck-a-bucks

· noun · nola

Homemade frozen Kool-Aid in a Dixie cup — NOLA summer staple.

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Definitions

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Kool-Aid frozen in a paper cup, sometimes with fruit or condensed milk thrown in, sold for a quarter out the front door by somebody's auntie. Pure New Orleans Black neighborhood summer. You bite the top, flip the cup, and squeeze. Spelled half a dozen ways but everybody knows what you mean.

“It's a hundred degrees, somebody go round the corner and grab some huck-a-bucks.”
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huck-a-bucks In A Sentence

It's a hundred degrees, somebody go round the corner and grab some huck-a-bucks.

Origin & Usage

African-American New Orleans neighborhood tradition; origin of the exact name is disputed but it's been a fixture of NOLA summers for generations.

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