"All of the environmental folks have been focused on this Arctic National Wildlife Refuge debate while the oil industry has been going huckledybuckto the west"
Larry Houle, general manager of The Alaska Support Industry Alliance.

Is this a real word?

I guess I would have used "hell for leather" which in itself is a curious turn of phrase.

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Originally posted by Quark:
"All of the environmental folks have been focused on this Arctic National Wildlife Refuge debate while the oil industry has been going huckledybuckto the west"
Larry Houle, general manager of The Alaska Support Industry Alliance.

Is this a real word?

I guess I would have used "hell for leather" which in itself is a curious turn of phrase.

I found two entries two entries in Google and when I checked out their alternative suggestion of "Hucklebuck" I got 21,500, covering several different subjects!

Thanks. MSN gave no hits at all! My google got no hits for huckledybuck and two for hucklebuck.
One reference usefully called it a dance. I must look it up at home rather than through the works more limited resources.

'Huckledybuck' is completely unknown to me but Word Detective is able to throw some light on the phrase 'hell for leather'.

“Hell for leather,” means specifically “riding (a horse) very fast and recklessly,” and is rarely heard today. The first recorded use of “hell for leather,” by the way, was in a story written in 1889 by Rudyard Kipling, who probably either invented the phrase or picked it up from British Army troops in India. Just what the “leather” in the phrase means is uncertain -- it may refer to a leather crop used to spur the horse, or it may refer to the wear and tear inflicted on the saddle by strenuous riding.

I followed the dance clue and found a song by Chubby Checker which is of the dance instruction style.
"Push ya baby out then you hunch her back
Start a little movement in your sacrolliac
Wiggle like a stick wobble like a duck
Thats what you do when you do the Hucklebuck"

I would give good odds that this is the only pop song to contain sacrolliac!

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Originally posted by Quark:

I would give good odds that this is the only pop song to contain sacrolliac!

I hope they're good odds because I'll take that bet!

Here's a tune from 10cc's Sheet Music album


- The Sacro-Iliac
Here's a new dance that you all can do
Baby, baby, what's he gonna do?
Sit back and relax `cos it's good for you
Baby, baby, what's he gonna do?
what's he gonna say?
He's takin' my breath away

Well if you're tired of doing the Boogaloo
And you're afraid of doing the Swim
`Cos you think you will drown
In the noise of the record
And the klutz on the floor
He ain't there anymore
`Cos all you wanna do
Is be alone at the bar
All you wanna do is be alone at the bar

You wanna drown in your cocktail
You wanna leave with the laundry

If your mind is trippin'
But your disc is slippin'
Here's what you gotta do -
Nothing
In any tempo and any rhythm

C'mon Mac do the sacro-iliac
C'mon back do the sacro-iliac
I said c'mon back do the sacro-iliac
Well it's easy
Here's the new dance that you 'll wanna do
So easy
Don't want to annoy ya with my paranoia

Now I'm doing the dance that is good for me
Baby, baby, what's it gonna be?
I ain't no Astaire, but I've a right to be
Baby, baby, when's he gonna learn?
Where's he gonna stay?
He's taken my breath away

Well I'm bored with the beat of the Shing-a-ling
And the Lindy is leaving me cold
`Cos I've never been freaky or funky or laid back
And the lush on the floor
Isn't me anymore
And I never ever wanna be alone
At the bar
Never ever wanna be alone at the bar

So C'mon Mac do the sacro-iliac
C'mon back do the sacro-iliac
Won't you c'mon back do the sacro-iliac
C'mon back do the sacro-iliac
Won't you come on back do the sacro-iliac

So - where can I see a streaming vid of you guys doing these dances???

Good job I am not a gambling man.
Nowadays it is all "I see you baby shake your scroilliac."
Or should it be donkey, but they are too big to shake properly so I guess not.
How times have changed.