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Definition buck

Etymology 1

Middle English buc, bucke, bukke, from Old English buc, bucc, bucca (“he-goat, stag”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“buck”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?u?- (“ram”). Cognate with West Frisian bok (“he-goat”), German Bock, Norwegian bukk; also Albanian buzë, Old Armenian ???? (buc, “sucking lamb”), Persian ??‎ (boz, “goat”), Sanskrit ????? (bukka).

Sense 8 from American English, an abbreviation of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748).

Sense 10 from American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck hence the term ("pass the buck") used in poker, eventually a Silver dollar was used in place of a knife leading to a dollar to be referred to as a buck.

Senses 15 & 16 are from Dutch bok (“sawhorse”), a shortened form of zaagbok (“sawbuck”).

Noun

buck (plural bucks)

  1. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
  2. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
  3. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
  4. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
  5. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
  6. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
  7. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
  8. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money
  9. (US, slang) One hundred.
  10. (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.
  11. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
  12. (Britain, dialectal) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
  13. (finance) One million dollars.
  14. (informal) A euro.
  15. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  16. 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".
  17. (African American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance
  18. Synonym of mule (type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.)
Verb

buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)

  1. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.

Etymology 2

Middle Low German bucken (“to bend”) or Middle Dutch bucken, bocken (“to bend”), intensive forms of Old Saxon b?gan and Old Dutch *b?gan (“to bend, bow”), both from Proto-Germanic *b?gan? (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”). Influenced in some senses by buck “male goat” (see above). Compare bow.

Verb

buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle 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.
  3. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
  4. (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.
  5. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
  6. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
  7. (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.
  8. (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.
  9. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
  10. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter

Etymology 3

See beech.

Noun

buck (plural bucks)

  1. (Scotland) The beech tree.

Etymology 4

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From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”). Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byga and Low German b?ken.

Noun

buck

  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.
Verb

buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)

  1. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
  2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  3. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

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