Sekirov Dictionary

buck

/ˈbʌk/

noun 35
verb 19
forms 3
phrases 13

noun35

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
A unit of a particular currency
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(US, informal) a dollar
- Can I borrow five bucks?
(South-Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
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(informal, rare) A euro.
- Those fools are all probably sitting outside the pork store, recalling the incident about losing a thousand bucks with the fake Gajas, and chewing on their soggy stogies. — 2010
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(US, informal) Money.
- Corporations will do anything to make a buck.
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
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Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
- the buck stops here
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
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(US, slang) One hundred.
- The police caught me driving a buck forty [140 miles per hour] on the freeway.
- That skinny guy? C’mon, he can’t weigh more than a buck and a quarter [125 pounds].
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An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- There are all kinds of game in the valley, and you are unlucky if you do not see a giraffe or an ostrich, or at least a herd of buck. — 1950
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(offensive, old-fashioned) A black or Native American man.
- As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. — 1925
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
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Clipping of buckshot.
- He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.
(old-fashioned) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
One million dollars.
(US, slang) Lowest rank; a private.
Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
(old-fashioned) Synonym of buck dance.
The sound made by a chicken.
(slang, old-fashioned) A kind of large marble in children's games.
(dialect, UK) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
(dialect, UK) The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
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(Scotland) The beech tree.
- There is in it also woodes of buck, and deir in them. — 1777
(dialect, UK) Belly, breast, chest.
(dialect, UK) Size.
(slang, no longer used) A sixpence.
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(offensive, no longer used) An Aboriginal man.
- ‘A couple of Old Men wanted that young lubra and they’ve spurred on the bucks to chase Possum and cut his liver out.’ — 1937
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(UK, no longer used) A fop or dandy.
- This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck. — 1808
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(no longer used) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- […] when you find the scurf to fall off, wash the Neck and other parts with Buck Lye made blood warm. — 1673
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(no longer used) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck! — 1597
(slang, no longer used) An unlicensed cabman.

verb19

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To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
- At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp. — 1849
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To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution.
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To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- The plane bucked a strong headwind.
- Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
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To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. — 1886
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To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
(US, slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
To copulate, as bucks and does.
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(Ireland, slang) To fuck.
- Well he yoked the ass up to the cart. And then the holy ructions it did start. Well he bucked it in the air and he bucked it all around. Till he smashed the buckin' cart upon the ground. — 1997
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(slang) To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- If I buck a paigon, I will disappoint his mum — 2020
To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
To bend; buckle.
(dialect, UK) To swell out.
To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of 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.
(no longer used) To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
(no longer used) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water
(no longer used) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
(slang, no longer used) To boast or brag.

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bucked · bucking · bucks

Phrases with buck

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