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Buck

Noun

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1.NounA male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
2.NounAn uncastrated sheep, a ram.
3.NounAn antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
4.NounThe sound made by a chicken.
5.NounA young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
6.NounA fop or dandy.
7.NounA black or Native American man.
8.NounAn Aboriginal man.
9.NounLowest rank; a private.
10.NounA unit of a particular currency A dollar (one hundred cents).
"Can I borrow five bucks?; three and a buck; Corporations will do anything to make a buck.; (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)"
11.NounA dollar (one hundred cents).
"Can I borrow five bucks?"
12.NounA rand (currency unit).
13.NounA sixpence.
"three and a buck"
14.NounA euro.
15.NounMoney.
"Corporations will do anything to make a buck."
16.NounOne million dollars.
"(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)"
17.NounOne 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]."
18.NounClipping of buckshot.
"He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck."
19.NounAn implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness. The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery. 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. 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. Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
"pass the buck; the buck stops here"
20.NounThe body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
21.NounA frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
22.NounA leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
23.NounA wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
24.NounAn 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. Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
"pass the buck; the buck stops here"
25.NounBlame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
"pass the buck; the buck stops here"
26.NounSynonym of buck dance.
27.NounSynonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
28.NounA kind of large marble in children's games.
29.NounAn unlicensed cabman.
30.VerbTo copulate, as bucks and does.
31.VerbTo bend; buckle.
32.VerbTo 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.
33.VerbTo throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
34.VerbTo resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
"The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution."
35.VerbTo move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
"The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely."
36.VerbTo 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.; John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well."
37.VerbTo 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.
38.VerbTo strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
39.VerbTo 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.
40.VerbTo saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
41.VerbTo output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
42.VerbTo fuck.
43.Verb To meet, to encounter, to come across.
44.NounThe beech tree.
45.NounLye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
46.NounThe cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
47.VerbTo soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
48.VerbTo wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water
49.VerbTo break up or pulverize, as ores.
50.NounThe body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
51.NounBelly, breast, chest.
52.NounSize.
53.VerbTo swell out.
54.VerbTo boast or brag.
55.Verb1 2 Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, pages 22–23
56.Verb↑ Rivet § Installation
57.Verb↑ Buck converter
58.Verb↑ Runes and Their Secrets: Studies in Runology. (2006). Denmark: Museum Tusculanum Press, p. 216
59.Verb1 2 3 “buck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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