What (who) is Buck - definition
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buck
buck1
¦ noun
1. the male of some animals, especially deer and antelopes.
S. African an antelope (of either sex).
2. a vertical jump performed by a horse, with the head lowered, back arched, and back legs thrown out behind.
3. archaic a fashionable and daring young man.
¦ verb
1. (of a horse) perform a buck.
2. oppose or resist: buck the trend.
3. (buck someone up or buck up) informal make or become more cheerful.
¦ adjective US military slang lowest of a particular rank: a buck private.
Phrases
buck up one's ideas become more serious, energetic, and hard-working.
Origin
OE: partly from buc 'male deer', of Gmc origin; reinforced by bucca 'male goat'.
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buck2
¦ noun informal
1. N. Amer. & Austral./NZ a dollar.
2. S. African a rand.
3. Indian a rupee.
Phrases
a fast buck easily and quickly earned money.
Origin
C19: of unknown origin.
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buck3
¦ noun an object placed as a reminder in front of a poker player whose turn it is to deal.
Phrases
the buck stops here informal the responsibility for something cannot be passed to someone else.
pass the buck informal shift responsibility to someone else.
Origin
C19: of unknown origin.
buck
I
n. (colloq.) (AE)
responsibility
to pass the buck
II
v. (colloq.) (AE)
1) (d; intr.) to buck against ('to oppose')
2) (D; intr.) ('to make an all-out effort') to buck for (to buck for a promotion)
Buck
·noun The beech tree.
II. Buck ·noun A male Indian or negro.
III. Buck ·vi To copulate, as bucks and does.
IV. Buck ·vt To break up or pulverize, as ores.
V. Buck ·noun The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
VI. Buck ·vt To throw by bucking. ·see Buck, ·vi, 2.
VII. Buck ·noun A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
VIII. Buck ·noun A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
IX. Buck ·vt To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds;
- a process in bleaching.
X. Buck ·noun The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
XI. Buck ·vt To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
XII. Buck ·noun Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
XIII. Buck ·vi 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.
XIV. Buck ·vt 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.
Pronunciation examples for Buck
1. RICHARD: Buck!
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2. RICHARD: Buck.
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3. Buck Rogers.
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4. "Uncle Buck" and "Roots."
Truth Be Told _ Will Packer _ Talks at Google
5. She loved Buck Clayton.
The Book of Changes - Jazz in China _ David Moser _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Buck
1. John "Buck" O‘Neil Buck O‘Neil represented excellence and determination both on and off the baseball field.
2. "A buck is like, ‘Eh, it‘s only a buck,"‘ she says.
3. That‘s when Buck and Maree were separated –– Buck was released, and his translator was moved to another police station.
4. "Buck" McKeon (Calif.), the committee‘s top Republican.
5. Think dotcom trailblazing with Buck Rogers technology.