p.s. buck

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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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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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

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."

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!

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