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buck·er

1   [buhk-er]
noun
1.
a horse that bucks.
2.
a person who bucks rivets.
3.
a person employed to carry, shovel, lift, or load coal, farm produce, etc.
Origin:
1880–85, Americanism; buck2 + -er1

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Bucker is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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buck·er

2   [buhk-er]
noun Canadian.
(in lumbering) a person who saws felled trees into shorter, more easily hauled lengths.
Origin:
1905–10; buck to cut wood with a bucksaw + -er1

buck

1   [buhk]
noun
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.
EXPAND
6.
bucks, casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often in white or a neutral color.
COLLAPSE
adjective
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:
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
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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
 
—n

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Word Origin & History

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

buck definition


  1. n.
    a dollar. : Gimme a buck for a bottle of wine, will you mister?
  2. tv.
    to resist something. : He enjoys bucking the system.
  3. 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.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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