buck
nounEtymology
From Middle English bukke, bucke, buc, from Old English buc, bucc, bucca (“he-goat, stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“buck”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“ram”). Doublet of puck (“billy goat”). Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748). The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by Dutch bok (“sawhorse”) as in zaagbok (“sawbuck”). The sense of an object indicating someone’s turn then occurred in American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck, which reinforced the term “pass the buck” used in poker, and eventually a silver dollar was used in place of a knife, which also led to a dollar being referred to as a buck.
Definitions
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals…
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
An antelope of either sex
An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- There are all kinds of game in the valley, and you are unlucky if you do not see a giraffe or an ostrich, or at least a herd of buck.
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The sound made by a chicken.
A young buck
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
A fop or dandy.
- This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.
A black or Native American man.
- As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.
- But this buck claimed he was a big war chief with the Nawyecky Comanches.
- She got so she’d rather have a buck nigger than me!
An Aboriginal man.
- ‘A couple of Old Men wanted that young lubra and they’ve spurred on the bucks to chase Possum and cut his liver out.’
Lowest rank
Lowest rank; a private.
A unit of a particular currency
- Can I borrow five bucks?
- Won't yer give Jake ten bucks ter buy hisself some close, so he look nice 'mong de gemmens?
One hundred.
- The police caught me driving a buck forty [140 miles per hour] on the freeway.
- That skinny guy? C’mon, he can’t weigh more than a buck and a quarter [125 pounds].
Clipping of buckshot.
- He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a…
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
Synonym of buck dance.
Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
A kind of large marble in children's games.
An unlicensed cabman.
To copulate, as bucks and does.
To bend
To bend; buckle.
To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully…
To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
To resist obstinately
To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution.
To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal
To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- The plane bucked a strong headwind.
- Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
- John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.
To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing…
To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite…
To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
To fuck.
- Well he yoked the ass up to the cart. And then the holy ructions it did start. Well he bucked it in the air and he bucked it all around. Till he smashed the buckin' cart upon the ground.
- Thatch had come down the stairs and chimed in: "Isn't he an awful buckin' eejit?"
To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- If I buck a paigon, I will disappoint his mum
- I go mad when I buck me a opper, chest and back and I fucked up his posture
The beech tree.
- There is in it also woodes of buck, and deir in them.
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes…
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- 1673, Robert Almond, The English Horseman and Complete Farrier, London: Simon Miller, Chapter 25 “Maunginess in the Main,” p. 236, […] when you find the scurf to fall off, wash the Neck and other parts with Buck Lye made blood warm.
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in…
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water
To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- This [ore mixture] was bucked or cobbed down to a 'peasy' size (i.e. the size of a pea) or less, using a flat-bottomed bucking hammer, and then riddled into coarse peasy and finer (sand-sized) 'smitham' grades.
The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
Belly, breast, chest.
Size.
To swell out.
To boast or brag.
- And then […] he bucks with a quiet stubborn determination that would fill an American editor, or an Under Secretary of State with despair. He belongs to the 12-foot-tiger school, so perhaps he can't help it.
An English surname transferred from the nickname.
A male given name from Old English.
A German surname, a variant of Buch.
An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
A township in Hardin County, Ohio, United States.
The neighborhood
- synonymbuttonitem that indicates dealer in poker
- synonymdealer buttonitem that indicates dealer in poker
- neighbordoe
- neighbordoeling
- neighborewe
- neighborgill
- neighborjill
- neighbornanny
- neighbornanny-goat
- neighborshe-goat
- neighborbuxom
- neighborBuck House
- neighborBuck Island
- neighborBuck Rogers time
Derived
a buck's a buck, bang for one's buck, bang for the buck, Biden bucks, big bucks, blackbuck, break the buck, buck ague, buck-and-wing, buckberry, buckboard, buck breaking, buckbrush, buck converter, buckeen, buck-eyed, buck fence, buck fever, buck fifty, buck general, buckhorn, buckhound, buckish, buckism, buckjumper, buckjumping, buck moon, buck naked, bucko, buck private, buck rabbit, buckraker, buckraking, buckram, buck rarebit, bucksaw, buckshot, buckskin, buck slip, bucksome · +60 more
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA