buck

noun bucks

1. 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.

   Similar: stag, billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat, hob, hob-ferret

2. US An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

   Similar: ram, tup

3. Africa 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.
4. The sound made by a chicken.
5. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man. Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]
6. UK, obsolete A fop or dandy. This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.

   Similar: macaroni, popinjay, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood

7. US, dated, derogatory 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.
8. Australia, derogatory, obsolete 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.’
9. US, slang Lowest rank; a private.
10. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, informal A dollar (one hundred cents). Can I borrow five bucks?

    Similar: bill, bone, buckaroo, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single

11. South Africa, informal A rand (currency unit).
12. UK, obsolete, slang A sixpence. three and a buck
13. 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.
14. Australia, South Africa, US, broadly, informal Money. Corporations will do anything to make a buck.
15. One million dollars.
16. US, slang One hundred. The police caught me driving a buck forty [140 miles per hour] on the freeway.

    Similar: ton

17. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of buckshot He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.
18. UK, dialectal The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
19. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
20. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
21. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. Plans in hand, Frank first paid his friend Raniero a visit, and the artisan quickly went to work on a fortified wood buck that would serve as a form for the Griffith 600 Series, as the car was formally known and marketed by Griffith Motors.
22. dated 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.
23. broadly, dated, in certain metaphors or phrases, in the US Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing. pass the buck
24. dated Synonym of buck dance.

    Similar: buck dance

25. Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).

    Similar: mule

26. dated, slang A kind of large marble in children's games.
27. UK, obsolete, slang An unlicensed cabman.

Similar: button, dealer button

verb bucks · bucking · bucked

1. intransitive To copulate, as bucks and does.

verb bucks · bucking · bucked

1. intransitive To bend; buckle.
2. intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal 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. 1849, Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy, William Carron, Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, 2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121, At the same time we got speared
3. transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking. The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
4. broadly, intransitive To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly. The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution.
5. broadly, intransitive To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner. The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
6. broadly, transitive 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.
7. transitive 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.
8. US, slang To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
9. 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.
10. To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
11. To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
12. Ireland, euphemistic, humorous 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.
13. Multicultural London English To meet, to encounter, to come across. If I buck a paigon, I will disappoint his mum

noun bucks

1. Scotland The beech tree. There is in it also woodes of buck, and deir in them.

noun

1. archaic Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. 1673, Robert Almond, The English Horseman and Complete Farrier, London: Simon Miller, Chapter 25 “Maunginess in the Main,” p. 236, […] when you find the scurf to fall off, wash the Neck and other parts with Buck Lye made blood warm.
2. archaic The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!

verb bucks · bucking · bucked

1. archaic To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
2. archaic To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water
3. archaic To break up or pulverize, as ores. This [ore mixture] was bucked or cobbed down to a 'peasy' size (i.e. the size of a pea) or less, using a flat-bottomed bucking hammer, and then riddled into coarse peasy and finer (sand-sized) 'smitham' grades.

noun bucks · bouk

1. UK, archaic, dialectal The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
2. UK, archaic, dialectal Belly, breast, chest.
3. UK, archaic, dialectal Size.

verb bucks · bucking · bucked · bouk

1. UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive To swell out.

verb bucks · bucking · bucked

1. archaic, intransitive, slang To boast or brag. And then […] he bucks with a quiet stubborn determination that would fill an American editor, or an Under Secretary of State with despair. He belongs to the 12-foot-tiger school, so perhaps he can't help it.

proper noun Bucke · Book

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname. The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present
2. A male given name from Old English.
3. A German surname, a variant of Buch.
4. An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
5. A township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
6. A township in Hardin County, Ohio, United States.