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buck

/bʌk/

noun

Meaning

  • A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.

  • An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

  • A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

  • A fop or dandy.

  • A black or Native American man.

  • A dollar (one hundred cents).

    "Can I borrow five bucks?"

  • A rand (currency unit).

  • (by extension) Money.

    "Corporations will do anything to make a buck."

  • One hundred.

    "That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter [125 pounds]."

  • 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.

  • (in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.

    "pass the buck"

  • The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.

  • One million dollars.

  • 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".

Synonyms

button,
stag,
hob,
hob-ferret,
billy,
billygoat,
buck-goat,
buckling,
he-goat,
ram,
tup,
bill,
bone,
clam,
cucumber,
dead president,
greenback,
note,
one-spot,
paper,
simoleon,
single,
smackeroo

verb

Meaning

  • To copulate, as bucks and does.

noun

Meaning

  • A type of African American traditional clogging.

noun

Meaning

  • The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

  • The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

  • A hybrid plant.

  • A stubborn person.

  • A person paid to smuggle drugs.

  • A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.

  • A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.

  • Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.

  • A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.

  • A kind of cotton-spinning machine.

noun

Meaning

  • A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.