buck
(noun) mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck
(noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
(noun) United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam
(noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar
buck, jerk, hitch
(verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; “the yung filly bucked”
tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck
(verb) move quickly and violently; “The car tore down the street”; “He came charging into my office”
buck, go against
(verb) resist; “buck the trend”
buck
(verb) to strive with determination; “John is bucking for a promotion”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
buck (plural bucks)
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
(British, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
(US, Australia, NZ, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
(South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
(by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
(US, slang) One hundred.
(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.
(US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
(UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
(finance) One million dollars.
(informal) A euro.
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. See Street Rodder "Making a Wood Buck".
(African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) synonym of buck dance
synonym of mule (type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.)
• (male deer): stag
• (male goat): billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat
• (male ferret): hob, hob-ferret
• (ram): ram, tup
• (slang: dollar): bill, bone, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single, smackeroo
• (item that indicates dealer in poker): button, dealer button
buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)
(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)
(intransitive) To bend; buckle.
(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.
(transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
• W. E. Norris
(transitive, military) 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.
(intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
(intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
(transitive, by extension) 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.
(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.
(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter
buck (plural bucks)
(Scotland) The beech tree.
buck
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
Buck
An English surname.
A male given name from Old English.
A German surname, a variant of Buch.
Source: Wiktionary
Buck, n. Etym: [Akin to LG. büke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. buée.]
1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [Obs.] Shak.
Buck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucking.] Etym: [OE. bouken; akin to LG. bĂĽken, Dan. byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the preceding noun.]
1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
3. (Mining)
Definition: To break up or pulverize, as ores.
Buck, n. Etym: [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, he-goat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend b, Skr. bukka. *256. Cf. Butcher, n.]
1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
Note: A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind. Brande & C.
2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.
3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]
Note: The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck. Blue buck. See under Blue.
– Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope.
Buck, v. i.
1. To copulate, as bucks and does.
2. 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.
Buck, v. t.
1. (Mil.)
Definition: 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.
2. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. W. E. Norris.
Buck, n.
Definition: A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.
Buck, n. Etym: [See Beech, n.]
Definition: The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 November 2024
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
