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buck
I. \ˈbək\ noun
(-s ; see senses 1&3)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English buck, bucke, from Old English buc, bucca he-goat, stag; akin to Old High German boc he-goat, Old Norse bukkr, Middle Irish bocc he-goat, Armenian buc lamb
1. or plural buck : a male animal:
a. : a male deer or antelope — not usually used of the male elk or moose or technically of the male red deer; compare bull, stag
b. : a male of any of several other four-footed mammals (as the goat, sheep, hare, rabbit, guinea pig, or rat); specifically : ram
c. : a male of some game fishes (as the salmon or shad)
2. : a male human being : man:
a. : a dashing fellow
b. : a male Indian or Negro — often used disparagingly
3. or plural buck : antelope — often used in combination
< bushbuck >
< springbuck >
4.
a. [by shortening] : buckskin; often : an article (as a shoe) made of buckskin
b. archaic : a deerskin regarded as a unit of exchange in early dealings with American Indians
c. : dollar 4a
5. [short for sawbuck] : sawhorse
6.
a. : a supporting rack or frame: as
(1) : a heavy square framework used in the glazing of leather
(2) : a rack for plate glass
(3) : a frame on which a clay model is built up
(4) : a large jig used especially in aircraft assembly operations
b. : a rough doorframe placed in a wall or partition during construction and used as a support to which the finished frame is made fast
c. : the padded usually horizontal part of a pressing machine on which clothes are placed for pressing — compare shoe
d. : a short thick leather-covered block for gymnastic vaulting usually without pommels and adjustable for height
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II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: buck (I), influenced in some meanings by butt, v.
intransitive verb
1. of a horse or mule : to spring with a quick plunging leap arching the back and descending with the forelegs rigid and the head held as low as possible
2. : to meet head on as if in butting:
a. : to charge an obstruction under power
< the plows … bucked day and half the night to keep the roads open — Helen Rich >
b. : to act, move, or stand firm in opposition
< East Bay legislators bucked in vain — Fortnight >
— often used with against
< salmon bucking against the stiff current >
< you're the one who has bucked against your churchmen — Zane Grey >
c. : to oppose one electric potential or field to another so that there is counteraction or neutralization
3.
a. : to move or react jerkily or erratically
< the vehicles bucked in and out of the obstructions — Darrell Berrigan >
< the way those early outboard motors would buck and die on you — Newsweek >
b. : to refuse to submit or agree : balk; sometimes : to become resentful
4. : to strive diligently for advancement or reward sometimes without regard to ethical behavior or the rights or interests of others — usually used with for
< bucking for sergeant's stripes >
transitive verb
1. : to throw or dislodge (as a rider) by bucking
< the pinto sunfished and bucked Charley over the paddock fence >
— often used with off
< leaned all his weight on it as the pressure of the water tried to buck him off the hose — C.D.Lewis >
2.
a. archaic : butt I
b. : to move in opposition to
< was bucking sleet and snow all the way >
c. : to act in opposition to : fight against : oppose, resist
< there's no point in bucking a well-established trend >
sometimes : to compete with
< the show occupied one of the toughest spots of the week … bucking the fantastically popular Charlie McCarthy at the same hour — Charles Jackson >
d. : to play or gamble against
< bucking the odds >
e. : to hold a tool against (a rivet) in order to resist the force of hammering — often used with up
< the man who bucks up the rivets has a hot difficult job >
f. : to carry, move, or load (heavy or troublesome objects) especially with mechanical equipment
3. : to charge into (the opponents' line in football)
4. : to buck up — usually used in passive
< Jumbo was greatly bucked over it — Time >
5. : to restrain (a person) by tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and through the angle formed by the knees; usually : to punish (as a soldier) by so restraining
6. : to pass especially from one person to another : hand on
< it was easier to buck the heavy sacks down the line than to carry them one by one >
< the Post Office department bucked the question on to Postmaster Pafford — Time >
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III. noun
(-s)
: the act or an instance of bucking
< he gave easily to the first excited bucks of his pony — Rudyard Kipling >
especially : a charge by the ball carrier into the opposing line in football
IV. adjective
Etymology: probably from buck (I) (man)
slang : being of the lowest grade within the military category to which one belongs
< a buck private >
< a buck general >
V. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: probably from buck (I) (sawhorse)
1. : to saw (felled trees) into logs or small pieces (as with a bucksaw)
2. : bring, carry
< buck water >
3. : to split (a stick of timber) into two crossties
VI. \ˈbək, ˈbu̇k\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English bouken; akin to Middle High German būchen to wash with lye, Old High German buohha beech tree — more at beech
1. dialect chiefly Britain : to soak, steep, or boil in lye or suds
2. dialect chiefly Britain : to wash (clothes) in lye or suds or by beating on stones in running water
VII. noun
(-s)
1. dialect chiefly Britain : lye or suds in which cloth or yarn is soaked or boiled in bleaching or in which clothes are washed
2. dialect chiefly Britain : the cloth or clothes soaked or washed in buck : wash
< a jolly brown wench, a-washing of her buck — Thomas D'Urfey >
VIII. \ˈbək\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Dutch beuken (from Middle Dutch bōken, böken) or Low German böken to strike, from Middle Low German bōken; akin to Middle High German bocken, pochen to strike, beat — more at poke
: to break up : pulverize
< buck ore samples >
IX. noun
(-s)
Etymology: origin unknown
Britain : a basket for catching eels; sometimes : a frame supporting a group of such baskets
X. noun
(-s)
Etymology: short for earlier buckhorn knife
1. : an object formerly used in poker to mark the next player to deal or to deal a jackpot, the winner of each jackpot placing the buck in front of him; especially : a buckhorn-handled knife used for this purpose — see pass
2. : a token used as a mark or reminder in a gambling game (as one used to designate a player's point in a dice game)
3. : a small object (as a silver token) used to mark the place of the officer who is to be served first in a naval wardroom
XI.
variant of bukh
XII. adverb
Etymology: origin unknown
South & Midland : stark, completely — usually used in the phrase buck naked
XIII. noun
: a sum of money especially to be gained
< greed and the desire to make a quick buck — London Times >
< pursuing the tourist buck — Albin West >
< it entreats in the name of art; it hopes to make a buck, too — John Corry >
< agents who look only for the biggest buck — Sol Stein >
also : money
< tactics … the Pentagon has used in its pursuit of the public buck — Robert Claiborne >
— usually used in plural
< for the big bucks you've got to give people meaningful material — Russell Baker >
< the public image of art as bucks — Barbara Rose > |