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[buhk] Pronunciation Key
[buhk] Pronunciation Key –noun
–adjective
| 1. | the male of the deer, antelope, rabbit, hare, sheep, or goat. |
| 2. | the male of certain other animals, as the shad. |
| 3. | an impetuous, dashing, or spirited man or youth. |
| 4. | Often Disparaging. a male American Indian or black. |
| 5. | buckskin. |
| 6. | bucks, casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often in white or a neutral color. |
| 7. | Military. of the lowest of several ranks involving the same principal designation, hence subject to promotion within the rank: buck private; buck sergeant. |
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME bukke, OE bucca he-goat, bucc male deer; c. D bok, G Bock, ON bukkr; def. 5, 6 by shortening; buck private (from ca. 1870) perh. as extension of general sense “male,” i.e., having no status other than being male]
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buck2
[buhk] Pronunciation Key
[buhk] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object)
–verb (used with object)
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| 1. | (of a saddle or pack animal) to leap with arched back and come down with head low and forelegs stiff, in order to dislodge a rider or pack. |
| 2. | Informal. to resist or oppose obstinately; object strongly: The mayor bucked at the school board's suggestion. |
| 3. | (of a vehicle, motor, or the like) to operate unevenly; move by jerks and bounces. |
| 4. | to throw or attempt to throw (a rider or pack) by bucking. |
| 5. | to force a way through or proceed against (an obstacle): The plane bucked a strong headwind. |
| 6. | to strike with the head; butt. |
| 7. | to resist or oppose obstinately; object strongly to. |
| 8. | Football. (of a ball-carrier) to charge into (the opponent's line). |
| 9. | to gamble, play, or take a risk against: He was bucking the odds when he bought that failing business. |
| 10. | to press a reinforcing device against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. |
| 11. | an act of bucking. |
| 12. | buck for, to strive for a promotion or some other advantage: to buck for a raise. |
| 13. | buck up, to make or become more cheerful, vigorous, etc.: She knew that with a change of scene she would soon buck up. |
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buck3
[buhk] Pronunciation Key
[buhk] Pronunciation Key –noun
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| 1. | a sawhorse. |
| 2. | Gymnastics. a cylindrical, leather-covered block mounted in a horizontal position on a single vertical post set in a steel frame, for use chiefly in vaulting. |
| 3. | any of various heavy frames, racks, or jigs used to support materials or partially assembled items during manufacture, as in airplane assembly plants. |
| 4. | Also called door buck. a doorframe of wood or metal set in a partition, esp. one of light masonry, to support door hinges, hardware, finish work, etc. |
| 5. | to split or saw (logs, felled trees, etc.). |
| 6. | buck in, Surveying, Optical Tooling. to set up an instrument in line with two marks. |
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buck4
[buhk] Pronunciation Key
[buhk] Pronunciation Key –noun
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| 1. | Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes. |
| 2. | to pass (something) along to another, esp. as a means of avoiding responsibility or blame: He bucked the letter on to the assistant vice president to answer. |
| 3. | pass the buck, to shift responsibility or blame to another person: Never one to admit error, he passed the buck to his subordinates. |
[Origin: 1860–65; short for buckhorn knife, an object which served this function]
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buck5
[buhk] Pronunciation Key British Dialect
[buhk] Pronunciation Key British Dialect –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | lye used for washing clothes. |
| 2. | clothes washed in lye. |
| 3. | to wash or bleach (clothes) in lye. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME bouken (v.); cf. MLG buken, büken to steep in lye, MHG būchen, bruchen]
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buck7
[buhk] Pronunciation Key
[buhk] Pronunciation Key –adverb Informal.
| completely; stark: buck naked. |
[Origin: 1925–30, Americanism; of obscure orig.]
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buck8
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[buhk] Pronunciation Key –noun Slang.
| a dollar. |
[Origin: 1855–60, Americanism; perh. buck1 in sense “buckskin”; deerskins were used by Indians and frontiersmen as a unit of exchange in transactions with merchants]
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Buck
[buhk] Pronunciation Key
[buhk] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | Pearl (Sy·den·strick·er)
[sahyd-n-strik-er] Pronunciation Key, 1892–1973, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1938. |
| 2. | a male given name. |
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| buck 1
(bŭk) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. bucked, buck·ing, bucks v. intr.
v. tr.
adj. Of the lowest rank in a specified military category: a buck private; a buck sergeant. Phrasal Verb(s): buck up To summon one's courage or spirits; hearten: My friends tried to buck me up after I lost the contest. [Middle English bukke, from Old English buc, male deer, and bucca, male goat.] buck'er n. |
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| buck 2
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n.
[Alteration (influenced by buck1) of Dutch bok, male goat, trestle, from Middle Dutch boc.] |
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| buck 3
(bŭk) Pronunciation Key
n. Informal
[Short for buckskin (from its use in trade).] |
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| buck 4
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tr.v. bucked, buck·ing, bucks Informal To pass (a task or duty) to another, especially so as to avoid responsibility: "We will see the stifling of initiative and the increased bucking of decisions to the top" (Winston Lord). [Short for buckhorn knife (from its use as a marker in poker).] |
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| Buck
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American writer whose life as a missionary in China lent a vivid immediacy to her novels, including The Good Earth (1931). She won the 1938 Nobel Prize for literature. |
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buck
O.E. bucca "male goat," from P.Gmc. *bukkon (cf. M.Du. boc, O.H.G. boc, O.N. bokkr), perhaps from a PIE base *bhugo (cf. Avestan buza "buck, goat," Arm. buc "lamb"), but some speculate that it is from a lost pre-Gmc. language. Apparently O.E. also had buc "male deer." The two words (if truly separate) were fully merged by c.1100. Verb is 1848, apparently with a sense of "jump like a buck." Meaning of "dollar" is 1856, Amer.Eng., perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin, a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days, attested in this sense from 1748. Buckshot is first recorded 1447; buck up "cheer up" is from 1844. Pass the buck is first recorded in the lit. sense 1865, Amer.Eng.:
"The 'buck' is any inanimate object, usually knife or pencil, which is thrown into a jack pot and temporarily taken by the winner of the pot. Whenever the deal reaches the holder of the 'buck', a new jack pot must be made." [J.W. Keller, "Draw Poker," 1887]The fig, sense of "shift responsibility" is first recorded 1912.
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| buck | |
noun | |
| 1. | a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting [syn: vaulting horse] |
| 2. | a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar] |
| 3. | United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973) |
| 4. | a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: sawhorse] |
| 5. | mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) |
verb | |
| 1. | to strive with determination; "John is bucking for a promotion" |
| 2. | resist; "buck the trend" |
| 3. | move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear] |
| 4. | jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked" |
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In addition to the idioms beginning with buck, also see big bucks; fast buck; more bang for the buck; pass the buck.
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1. Trader's slang for a million dollars. 2. Informal reference to one dollar.
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Buck Grove, IA (city, FIPS 9145) Location: 41.91866 N, 95.39699 W
Population (1990): 20 (10 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Kill Buck, NY Zip code(s): 14748
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Buck\ (b[u^]k), n. [Akin to LG. b["u]ke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. bu['e]e.]1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. 2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Buck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucked (b[u^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Bucking.] [OE. bouken; akin to LG. b["u]ken, Dan. byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the preceding noun.]1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. 2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. 3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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Buck\, n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend b?za, Skr. bukka. [root]256. Cf. Butcher, n.]1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. Note: A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind. --Brande & C. 2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. --Thackeray. 3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.] Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck. Blue buck. See under Blue. Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope.
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Buck\ (b[u^]k), v. i. 1. To copulate, as bucks and does. 2. To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
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Buck\, v. t. 1. (Mil.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in 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. 2. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. --W. E. Norris.
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Buck\, n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.
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Buck\, n. [See Beech, n.] The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. --Johnson.
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