Meaning of Buck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The beech tree.
   Scotland
2. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
   archaic
3. An English surname transferred from the nickname.
4. The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
5. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
6. An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
   US
7. A male given name from Old English.
8. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
   archaic
9. Belly, breast, chest.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
10. An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
    Africa
11. A German surname, a variant of Buch.
12. Size.
    UK, archaic, dialectal
13. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
14. An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
15. A fop or dandy.
    British, obsolete
16. A township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
17. A township in Hardin County, Ohio, United States.
18. A black or Native American man.
    US, dated, derogatory
19. Lowest rank; a private.
    US, slang
20. A unit of a particular currency
    Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, informal
21. A dollar (one hundred cents).
    Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, informal
22. A rand (currency unit).
    South-Africa, informal
23. A sixpence.
    UK, obsolete, slang
24. A euro.
    informal, rare
25. Money.
    Australia, South-Africa, US, broadly, informal
26. One million dollars.
27. One hundred.
    US, slang
28. Clipping of buckshot.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
29. An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
    UK, dialectal
30. The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
    UK, dialectal
31. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
32. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
33. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
34. 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.
    dated
35. Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
    broadly, dated
36. Synonym of buck dance.
    dated
37. Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
38. A kind of large marble in children's games.
    dated, slang
39. An unlicensed cabman.
    UK, obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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 […]”

“This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.”

“The Captain was then a buck and dandy, during the reign of those two successive dynasties, of the first rank of the second order ; the characteristic of which very respectable rank of fashionables I hold to be, that their spurs impinge upon the pavement oftener than upon the sides of a horse.”

“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.”

“But this buck claimed he was a big war chief with the Nawyecky Comanches.”

“She got so she’d rather have a buck nigger than me!”

“Her curly red hair loose from its combs hangin' down her back and her freckled skin bare, and a big ole nigger buck was doin' things to her! He'd always known that Hootch Carter raped and killed Becky Nell, never had reason to doubt it.”

“Can I borrow five bucks?”

“Won't yer give Jake ten bucks ter buy hisself some close, so he look nice 'mong de gemmens?”

“three and a buck”

three shillings and sixpence

“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.”

“Corporations will do anything to make a buck.”

“It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.”

“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].”

“He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.”

“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.”

“pass the buck”

“the buck stops here”

“There is in it also woodes of buck, and deir in them.”

“But, whilst we thus condemn the timber, we must not omit to praise the mast, which fats our swine and deer, and hath, in some families, even supported men with bread. Chios endured a memorable siege by the beniefit of this mast. And, in some parts of France, they now grind the buck in mills; it affords a sweet oil, which the poor people east most willingly.”

“The HORNBEAM ( provincially “HORSE-BEECH," in contradistinction to “buck beech” — the true beech) is, in many woods, the most prevalent species; and being drawn up in thickets with a rapid growth, becomes tall and straight enough for hop poles: and is even suffered to grow up, as a species of wood timber.”

“The magnolia, buck [ beech?], and poplar never grow on lands subject to overflow.”

“The underbrush is all there, spice brush, buck beech, iron wood and alder and no doubt in the spring of the year, there is a wealth of flowers.”

“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.”

“Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!”

“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 but he is not on the Ethics Committee.”

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