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bucker

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buck⋅er

1  [buhk-er]
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–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; buck 2 + -er 1

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 + -er 1

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.
6. bucks, casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often in white or a neutral color.
–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:
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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buck 1   (bŭk)   
n.  

    1. The adult male of some animals, such as the deer, antelope, or rabbit.

    2. Antelope considered as a group: a herd of buck.

    3. A robust or high-spirited young man.

    4. A fop.

    5. Buckskin.

    6. bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.

    1. A robust or high-spirited young man.

    2. A fop.

    3. Buckskin.

    4. bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.

  3. Offensive A Native American or Black man.

  4. An act or instance of bucking: a horse that unseated its rider on the first buck.

    1. Buckskin.

    2. bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.

v.   bucked, buck·ing, bucks

v.   intr.

  1. To leap upward arching the back: The horse bucked in fright.

  2. To charge with the head lowered; butt.

  3. To make sudden jerky movements; jolt: The motor bucked and lurched before it finally ran smoothly.

  4. To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.

  5. Informal To strive with determination: bucking for a promotion.

v.   tr.

  1. To throw or toss by bucking: buck off a rider; bucked the packsaddle off its back.

  2. To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against: "Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the country, is bucking the trend" (American Demographics).

  3. Football To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.

  4. Archaic To butt against with the head.

adj.  Of the lowest rank in a specified military category: a buck private; a buck sergeant.
Phrasal Verb(s):
buck upTo 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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
buck

  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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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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