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buck

[buhk]

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noun

the male of the deer, antelope, rabbit, hare, sheep, or goat.

the male of certain other animals, as the shad.

an impetuous, dashing, or spirited man or youth.

Often Disparaging. a male American Indian or black.

buckskin.

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bucks, casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often in white or a neutral color.

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adjective

Military. of the lowest of several ranks involving the same principal designation, hence subject to promotion within the rank: buck private; buck sergeant.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English bukke, Old English bucca he-goat, bucc male deer; cognate with Dutch bok, German Bock, Old Norse bukkr; def. 5, 6 by shortening; buck private (from circa 1870) perhaps as extension of general sense “male,” i.e., having no status other than being male

Example Sentences

Buck showtimes and ticket information by city or zip code.

Someone should be held accountable, and the buck stops with the president.

Company bosses often complain that hedge funds are out to ruin them or their business for a quick buck.

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Buck showtimes and ticket information by city or zip code.

Someone should be held accountable, and the buck stops with the president.

Company bosses often complain that hedge funds are out to ruin them or their business for a quick buck.

It had robust jaws similar to those of other oviraptorosaurs, but with two unusually large buck teeth.

Replacing the gas backup with green storage adds a further buck a kwh.

Armed with such logic, a coalition of the hopeful is trying to buck the rude trend, even to reverse it.

Instead of ransoming domain names, owners find other ways to make a buck from websites bearing celebrity monikers.

Most hedge funds are not in the market to make a quick buck.

And universities have been criticised for abandoning the pursuit of truth in favour of making a quick buck.

Spring offers a less touristy experience, good weather, and more bang for the buck.

Doubling capacity would add a buck a month to your bill.

It's whorthwhile paying an extra buck or two for a decent flavour.

Quinn is not some moonshiner trying to make a quick buck on the alt-fuel craze.

Diaconis says his goal is to educate rather than to make a buck off of his knowledge of magic.

Some of them need to buck up, and some of them need to shut up.

But tales of their savagery and wiliness don't all come from sensationalist authors looking to make a buck.

Replacing the gas backup with green storage adds a further buck and half.

For those who already owned iPods, the freebie offered a chance to turn a quick buck or do someone a favor.

One side of me says they should buck up and get over it.

Yet when these men earn so many millions, the buck should stop at the top, not a few rungs down.

We saw a beautiful kudu buck with a whole harem of females.

Cutting corners on this for a quick buck is likely to leave a mess around.

Maybe, some day, it'll become required drinking for buck privates.

The first days of buck season and trout season are major holidays.

Côte d'Ivoire must not be allowed to buck that trend.

It's too bad how in our society people can be so eager to place blame and try to make a quick buck.

The internet is rife with opportunists more concerned with making a buck off of my suffering than relieving it.

Diacon's department was lucky enough to buck this trend.

To deliver as much bang per buck as possible, these have to be run flat out.

Here are the three categories of environmental improvements with the biggest bang for the buck.

As usual, where that many students are hanging out, companies are trying to make a buck off them.

When green storage replaces the filthy gas cost increases by a buck a kwh.

Only a political movement strong enough to buck the corporate money determining our tax policy can change this downward spiral.

These are all fringe sites trying to make a buck by propagating false information.

Nowdays they have to compete with for-profit schools who will do anything for a buck selling degrees.

While it can be admirable when teens buck trends, it is not the norm, and the norm is what the study is examining.

Two year college want a lot of bang for the buck so that you can teach in several different disciplines.

We are probably all being poisoned with it by the food industry who is trying to make a buck off our need to feed.

Few promise to deliver as much bang for the buck as making work more relevant to.

In my opinion, that is the biggest bang for the buck.

Pannapacker's empathy– that and a buck might buy me a pack of gum.

Current thinking is to make a quick buck and it has been for some time.

So, a dollar of student loan interest often gives more tax bang for the buck than a dollar of mortgage interest.

Every dollar spent on health care is a buck made by health care providers.

Well, perhaps you have some other criteria, but maximizing the bang for the buck should be the main criteria.

It would cost a buck a kwh to add enough green storage to eliminate gas backup bankrupting the country.

If a politician can make a buck by opposing it, he will.

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verb (used without object)

(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.

Informal. to resist or oppose obstinately; object strongly: The mayor bucked at the school board's suggestion.

(of a vehicle, motor, or the like) to operate unevenly; move by jerks and bounces.

verb (used with object)

to throw or attempt to throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

to force a way through or proceed against (an obstacle): The plane bucked a strong headwind.

to strike with the head; butt.

to resist or oppose obstinately; object strongly to.

Football. (of a ball-carrier) to charge into (the opponent's line).

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to gamble, play, or take a risk against: He was bucking the odds when he bought that failing business.

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to press a reinforcing device against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.

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noun

11.

an act of bucking.

Verb phrases

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.

Origin:
1855–60; verbal use of buck¹, influenced in some senses by buck³

noun

a sawhorse.

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.

any of various heavy frames, racks, or jigs used to support materials or partially assembled items during manufacture, as in airplane assembly plants.

Also called door buck. a doorframe of wood or metal set in a partition, especially one of light masonry, to support door hinges, hardware, finish work, etc.

verb (used with object)

to split or saw (logs, felled trees, etc.).

Verb phrase

buck in, Surveying, Optical Tooling. to set up an instrument in line with two marks.

Origin:
1855–60; short for sawbuck

noun

Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.

verb (used with object)

to pass (something) along to another, especially as a means of avoiding responsibility or blame: He bucked the letter on to the assistant vice president to answer.

Idiom

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

noun

lye used for washing clothes.

clothes washed in lye.

verb (used with object)

to wash or bleach (clothes) in lye.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English bouken (v.); compare Middle Low German buken, büken to steep in lye, Middle High German būchen, bruchen

verb (used without object), noun Anglo-Indian.

bukh.

adverb Informal.

completely; stark: buck naked.

Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; of obscure origin

noun Slang.

a dollar.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; perhaps buck¹ in sense “buckskin”; deerskins were used by Indians and frontiersmen as a unit of exchange in transactions with merchants

noun

Pearl (Sy·den·strick·er)

[sahyd-n-strik-er] , 1892–1973, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1938.

a male given name.

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World English Dictionary

buck¹ (bʌk)

—n
1.	a. the male of various animals including the goat, hare, kangaroo, rabbit, and reindeer
	b. (as modifier): a buck antelope
2.	(South African) an antelope or deer of either sex
3.	informal (US) a young man
4.	archaic a robust spirited young man
5.	archaic a dandy; fop
6.	the act of bucking

—vb (when intr, often foll by against)
7.	(intr) (of a horse or other animal) to jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
8.	(tr) (of a horse, etc) to throw (its rider) by bucking
9.	informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) to resist or oppose obstinately: to buck against change; to buck change
10.	informal (tr; usually passive) to cheer or encourage: I was very bucked at passing the exam
11.	informal (US), (Canadian) (esp of a car) to move forward jerkily; jolt
12.	(US), (Canadian) to charge against (something) with the head down; butt

[Old English bucca he-goat; related to Old Norse bukkr, Old High German bock, Old Irish bocc]

'bucker¹

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buck² (bʌk)

—n
1.	informal (US), (Canadian), (Austral) a dollar
2.	informal (South African) a rand
3.	a fast buck easily gained money
4.	bang for one's buck See bang

[C19: of obscure origin]

buck³ (bʌk)

—n
1.	gymnastics a type of vaulting horse
2.	(US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): sawhorse a stand for timber during sawing

—vb
3.	(US), (Canadian) (tr) to cut (a felled or fallen tree) into lengths

[C19: short for sawbuck]

buck⁴ (bʌk)

—n
1.	poker a marker in the jackpot to remind the winner of some obligation when his turn comes to deal
2.	informal pass the buck to shift blame or responsibility onto another
3.	informal the buck stops here the ultimate responsibility lies here

[C19: probably from buckhorn knife, placed before a player in poker to indicate that he was the next dealer]

Buck (bʌk)

—n
	Pearl S(ydenstricker). 1892--1973, US novelist, noted particularly for her novel of Chinese life The Good Earth (1931): Nobel prize for literature 1938

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Word Origin & History

buck

"male deer," c.1300, earlier "male goat;" from 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. Barnhart says O.E. buc "male

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deer" is a "ghost word or scribal error." Meaning "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. 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. Buck private is recorded by 1870s, of uncertain signification.

buck

1848, apparently with a sense of "jump like a buck," from buck (n.1). Buck up "cheer up" is from 1844.

buck

"sawhorse," 1817, Amer.Eng., apparently from Du. bok "trestle."

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Slang Dictionary

buck definition

n.
a dollar. : Gimme a buck for a bottle of wine, will you mister?
tv.
to resist something. : He enjoys bucking the system.
n.
a buckskin (leather) shoe. (Usually plural.) : Look at my new white bucks!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Idioms & Phrases

buck

In addition to the idioms beginning with buck, also see big bucks; fast buck; more bang for the buck; pass the buck.