shook meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

shook

noun

AU, US, UK /ʃʊk/ · UK /ʃɵk/

Etymology Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).

A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.

The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

verb

Etymology Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).

To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.

adj

Slang Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.

Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook.2015, Gary L. Heyward, Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island, page 239:
Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK."2017 March 21, Danny Madion, “Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 5:

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He wrote this long ass thing about how we're the next up and coming thing! I'm shook, I'm like 'What the hell?" and all the emails started coming in—Interscope, Capitol, Universal, it was this whole spiral.2018, Eddington Again, quoted in Senay Kenfe, "Eddington Again", L. A. Record, Summer 2018, page 35

Slang Emotionally upset or disturbed; scared.

Crystal was shook when Mr. Wu discovered she was shopping online for panties and bras to pass the time in class.