Buck

Definition: Buck

Buck

Adjective

1. (of upper front teeth) projecting outward; "buck teeth".

2. Of the lowest rank in a category; "a buck private".

Noun

1. A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting.

2. (United States) a piece of paper money worth one dollar.

3. United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973).

4. A framework for holding wood that is being sawed.

5. Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope).

Verb

1. To strive with determination; "John is bucking for a promotion.".

2. Resist; "buck the trend".

3. Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office".

4. Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched, as of horses.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Buck" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a buck".

Date "buck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Note: Buck \Buck\, noun. [See Beech, noun]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Buck

Animal

Fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar.

Cleanness

Wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain.

Excitability

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Fop

Noun: fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat; exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner; Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight; masher, dude.

Health

On one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected.

Leap

Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade, gambado; capriole, demivolt; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade.

Man

Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot.

Crosswords: Buck

It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making love of a buck, the cushy job - more important than the love of man (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.)

You have got to buck up, man. You cannot drag this negative energy in to the tournament (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

Cough up a buck you cheap bastard (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life (Wall Street; writing credit: Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, and Martin Sheen as Carl Fox.)

You need the luck to make a buck (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

When your man wants to get buck wild (Hit 'em up Style (Oops!); performing artist: Blu Cantrell)

And when I'm feeling stuck and need a buck (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck. (Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Breakin' my back just to make a buck (If I Could Make A Living; performing artist: Clay Walker)

I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few. (references; author: unknown)

Old folks say, "I wish  the buck stopped here. I sure could use a few. (references; author: unknown)

Buck House (1974)

Born to Buck (1966)

Fast Buck Duck (1963)

Le Avventure di Robi e Buck (1957)

Buck Rogers (1950)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Big Buck Brewery & Steakhouse, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Cutter & Buck Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Buck Fever (reference)

• Buck Wilder's Small Fry Fishing Guide: A Complete Introduction to the World of Fishing for Small Fry of All Ages (reference)

• East Wind: West Wind (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 8th,) (reference)

• Gettin' Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II (reference)

• Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: Teaching Your Kids the Value of a Buck (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Big Buck Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Uncle Buck (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Miss Abbe Buck, ''Big Band Swing and Saloon Style''; Songs from a Bygone era (reference)

• Happy Birthday Buck: Texas Salute Buck Owens (reference)

• Tenor Conclave: Rein DeGraff Trio with Teddy Edwards, Buck Hill, Von Freeman [LIVE] (reference)

• Da Turdy Point Buck, Da Turd Album (reference)

• Unlucky Buck (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Buck Bumble (reference)

• Deer Hunter: Monster Buck (4-Pack) (reference)

• Trophy Bass 2 Deluxe & Trophy Buck Bundle (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A Danish windwill ruin at sunset on the northeast end of St. Croix. Buck Island Reef National Monument is in the background. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Virgin Islands - tropical or desert? Cactus on the north side of St. Croix looking toward Buck Island Reef National Monument. Credit: America's Coastlines.

View from Buck Island Lagoon of east St. Croix. Telescope of National Radio Astronomy Observatory is visible. Credit: America's Coastlines.

View of Buck Island Reef National Monument from Chenay Bay on Green Cay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking ENE from Chenay Bay Beach towards Green Cay to left and Buck Island to right. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Buck Island Reef National Monument - a jewel in a tropical sea. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Long shot of a buck deer near the John Day River.l. Credit: John Craig.

Mule Deer buck in Blitzen Valley near Frenchglen, Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

A buck Antelope in the Casper Field Office Area. Credit: Unknown.

Buck Island Reef National Monument. Credit: NPS.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Denmark

Export companies seeking only a fast buck have very little chance of success. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A buck

Expressions using "buck": A buck of the first head ♦ black buck ♦ Blue buck ♦ buck at ♦ Buck bean ♦ buck beer ♦ buck board ♦ buck currants ♦ buck fever ♦ buck for ♦ buck Grove ♦ buck jump ♦ Buck mast ♦ buck off ♦ buck private ♦ Buck saw ♦ buck skin ♦ buck smb. up ♦ buck up ♦ buck up one's ideas ♦ buck up! ♦ buck wagon ♦ Buck wheat ♦ Bush buck ♦ eel buck ♦ Gray buck ♦ Kill Buck ♦ Lee Buck Trevino ♦ pass the buck ♦ Pearl Buck ♦ Pearl Sydenstricker Buck ♦ reed buck ♦ roe buck ♦ water buck ♦ young buck. Additional references.

Beginning with "buck": buck-a-day, buck-and-wing, Buck-basket, buck-eye, Buck-eyed, Buck-morss, buck-naked, buck-passing, buck-saw, buck-shot, buck-stopping, buck-teeth, buck-tooth, buck-toothed.

Ending with "buck": big-buck, fast-buck, five-hundred-buck, haw-buck, mega-buck, quick-buck, saw-buck, water-buck.

Albanian

sulem me top, shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), mashkull (bull, dog, he, male, mate, stag, Tom), kalë (equine, gee, Hackney, horse, knight, nag, Steed, vaulting horse), indian i amerikës (injun, red indian), i kundërvihem (antagonize, censure, confront, discourage, stand up to), hedhje (Bob, cast, chuck, dart, dash, disposal, drop, fling, flirt, hop, hurl, jerk, launch, leap, lunge, lurch, pitch, pounce, precipitation, projection, put, skip, throw, throwing, toss), godas me kokë, faj (blame, crime, delinquency, fault, guilt, guiltiness, wrong), dre (deer, elk, stag), dollar (dollar, greenback), djalë i hedhur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هندي أحمر (digger, fox, red indian), ‏طرح ارضا, ‏ذكر الوعل الظبي والارنب, ‏جلد الغزال, ‏رجل (bloke, boy, chap, gent, go on foot, lad, leg, male, man, pin), ‏دولار (dollar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

овен (ram, tup), мъжки елен, друсам се (bump), долар (dollar, plunk). (various references)

Chinese 

麚 (stag), 雄鹿 (stag), 噳 (herd, stag), 大型装配架. (various references)

Czech

srnec (deer, Roebuck). (various references)

Danish

save op, gedebuk (billy goat, he-goat, male goat), doedplade (dead plate, deadplate). (various references)

Dutch

bok (bench, easel, goat, he-goat, tressle, workbench), rammelaar (buck-hare, buck-rabbit), mannetjeskonýn (buck-rabbit), mannetjeshaas (buck-hare), koeltafel (dead plate, deadplate), koelplaat (dead plate, deadplate), geitebok (he-goat), afkoelplaat (dead plate, deadplate). (various references)

Esperanto

virleporo (buck-hare), virkuniklo (buck-rabbit). (various references)

Farsi 

مخالفت کردن با(دربازی فتوتبال), قوچ (Ram), جفتک انداختن , جفتک , جنس نراهووحیوانات دیگر, ازروی خرک پریدن , دلار (Dollar). (various references)

Finnish

pukki (billy-goat, horse, trestle). (various references)

French

bouquin (buck-hare, buck-rabbit), bouc, tronçonner, scier un rondin, plaque de refroidissement, plaque de démoulage, plaque d'attente, mec, mâle de gazelle, mâle (bull), lapin mâle, lancer une ruade, indien rouge, dollar, élégant. (various references)

German

dollar (dollar, smacker), bocken (act up, jib, play up, refuse), bock (goat, he goat, ram, ramp, sawhorse, stag, stool, stubbornness, trestle, vaulting horse). (various references)

Greek 

κλωτσοπηδώ, κομψευμένοσ νέοσ, πλάκα ψύξεως (dead plate, deadplate), εναντιούμαι (contravene, kick), αρσενικόσ λαγόσ, αρσενικός λαγός (male hare), αρσενικό έλαφοσ, αρσενικό ελάφι (stag), ανατρέπω (capsize, frustrate, invert, keel over, nullify, overbalance, overrule, overthrow, overturn, subvert, tip over, tip over 2, topple, tumble, upset, upturn), αίξ (goat), τράγος (billy goat), τεμαχίζω (carve, chop, cut up, dissect, fritter, parcel out, sliver), δολλάριο (dollar). (various references)

Hebrew 

מי אפר, לקפוץ (bound, gambol, jump, leap, spring), להפיל רוכב, להעניש (bring to book, castigate, penalize, punish), לדהור (career, gallop), לנסר עצים. (various references)

Hungarian

dollár (dollar, simoleon), bak (Capricorn, dickey, dickey-seat, dicky, horse, perch, trestle). (various references)

Indonesian

rusa jantan (hart). (various references)

Italian

becco (beak, bill, billygoat, cuckold, lip, Neb, nozzle, rostrum, spout), piastra di raffreddamento (dead plate, deadplate), leprotto (leveret), impennarsi (nose up, rear, rear up, zoom), fare resistenza, dollaro (dollar, smacker), depezzatura, daino (deer, doe, doeskin, fallow deer, fawn, Hart), coniglio (bunny, cony, doe, rabbit), cervo (deer, Hart, red deer, stag), caprone (billygoat, he goat), capro (billygoat, he goat), antilope (antelope). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

牡鹿 (stag). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おじか (stag). (various references)

Korean 

숫사슴. (various references)

Manx

lhoobaghey (buckling), lheim (bounce, bound, embrace, flush, hop, jump, leap, leaping, limp, lope, pounce, spring, start, tup; jumping, vault), jonseragh (jolt, shy, shying, wince, wincing), buggley (buckling), bock (gelding, he, josser, male, swell). (various references)

Pig Latin

uckbay.(various references)

Portuguese

resistir (antagonize, bear up, confront, defy, hold out, resist, stand up to, withstand), pulo (bounce, bound, capriole, fling, frisk, hop, jump, leap, skip, spring), pular (capriole, frisk, hop, jump, jump over, leap, skip, spring), placa morta (dead plate, deadplate), placa de espera (dead plate, deadplate), placa de desmoldagem (dead plate, deadplate), placa de arrefecimento (dead plate, deadplate), pinote, macho (cock-a-doodle-doo, flute, he, macho, malaria, male, masculine, mate, mule, tenon, virile), enfeitar-se (dink, titivate, tog oneself up), copular (copulate, couple, have sex, mount, screw), apressar-se (get a move on, hie, hotfoot, hurry, run, scurry, speed). (various references)

Romanian

berbec (battering ram, beetle, pile driver, ram, rammer, sheep, wether), bãrbãtuş (male, mate), se ridica în douã picioare, leşie (lye, steep), dolar (dollar), copitã (coffin, hoof), caprã de tãiat lemne, caprã (chock, coach box, goat, horse, Jack, kid, leap-frog, nanny goat, rafter, saw-horse, she-goat, stool), ţap (billy goat, goat, he goat). (various references)

Russian 

щелок (liquor, lixivium, lye), олень-самец (stag, stag party), брыкаться, противодействовать самец, доллар (bucks, dollar, smacker). (various references)

Scottish

boc (a buck, he-goat, roe-buck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbaciti (cast off, dethrone, spill, throw down, throw off), upasti (crash, drop in, fall into, intrude, invade, punctuate), srndać (roebuck), protiviti se (antagonize, counteract, object to, oppose, remonstrate), mužjak (cock sparrow, he, jack, male), jelen (deer, hart, stag), dolar (dollar, smacker). (various references)

Spanish

brinco (flaw, gambol, hop, jump, leap, skip), ficha (chessman, chip, file, index card, record card, slug, token), carga (barge, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, freight, imposition, liability, load, onus, shipment, tax, weight), cargar (burden, carry, charge, charging, encumber, enwrap, fall on, Lade, load, load down, load up, pack, pile up, plough, plow, Stoke, take on, upload, weight), ciervo (deer, Hart, red deer, stag), conejo macho (buck-rabbit), corcovear (caper, plunge), dólar (dollar, plonk, plunk, smacker), aserrar por el centro, empeñarse (blind oneself, buckle down to, insist, persist), resistir porfiadamente a, liebre macho (buck-hare), macho (bully, butch, he, macho, male, man, mate, pin, pintle, plug, sledgehammer, tap), macho cabrío (billy goat, goat), macho cabrio (billy goat, he-goat, male goat), petimetre (dude, exquisite, fop, popinjay, toff), placa de enfriamiento (dead plate, deadplate), porto, raso (level, satin, sleek, smooth, unruffled), dar sacudidas (bump, lurch). (various references)

Swedish

bock (billy goat, cross, duck, fault, goat, he-goat, howler, tick, trestle), hanne (bull). (various references)

Thai

เลื่อย (saw), พนัน (bet, bet on), ผ้าที่ซักในน้ำยาเคมี, ผู้ชายรุ่นหนุ่ม, สู้โดยใช้หัวชน, สัตว์ตัวผู้, สิ่งที่ทำจากหนังสัตว์, ฝ่าเข้าไป, ต่อต้าน (combat, kick against, kick at, match against, oppose, rebel against), หนังสัตว์ (fell, hide), ซักในน้ำยาเคมี. (various references)

Turkish

papel, dolar (dollar, greenback, potato, rock, smacker), erkek geyik (Hart, stag), erkek kızılderili, erkeklere özel (stag), erkeklerle ilgili, itaatsizlik etmek, antilop (antelope, gnu, impala), karşı gelmek (argue, beard, bridle, controvert, cut across, defy, go against, object to, oppose, recalcitrate, transgress), zenci (african, black, blackamoor, Blackie, Blacky, colored, coloured, coon, crow, jim crow, moke, negro, negroid, sambo, spade, uncle), pokerde kâğıt dağıtma sırası, sıçramak (bounce, bound, capriole, cavort, gambol, hop, jerk, jink, jump, leap, leap up, skip, skitter, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spring, sputter, squirt, start up, take off, vault), sıçrayıp binicisini düşürmek, sıçrayan hayvan, sorumluluk (accountability, baby, blame, burden, charge, control, custody, encumbrance, engagement, liability, load, office, onus, pidgin, place, responsibility, trust), züppe (adonis, beau, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, Dandy, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, spark, swell, toff), itiraz etmek (argue, argue against smth., blow the whistle on, challenge, contest, contravene, demur, deprecate, dispute, except, expostulate, gainsay, interpose, make an objection to, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, raise an objection to, remonstrate, take exception to, take objection to). (various references)

Turkmen 

gaяratlanmak (buck up, get gutsy). (various references)

Ukrainian

ставати дибки (prance, rear up), смілива людина, самець оленя, рвонути, чепурун (Dandy, popinjay), чинити отпір, візок (car, carriage, cart, trolley, truck), вислужуватись, негр (ethiopian, negro, non-european), лужити, брикатися (cavort, kick), покривати (ceil, clothe, coat, cope, cover, cover with, dab, lay over, mantle, strew, suffuse), долар (dollar, piastre), денді (adonis). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bạn thân (familiar, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met, shadow), thỏ đực người diện sang, nai đực, nước nấu quần áo, hoẵng đực, hươu đực (stag), chuyện ba hoa khoác lác, cái giá đỡ. (various references)

Welsh

bwch danas, bwch. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "buck": buckaroo, buckaroos, buckayro, buckayros, buckbean, buckbeans, buckboard, buckboards, bucked, buckeen, buckeens, bucker, buckeroo, buckeroos, buckers, bucket, bucketed, bucketful, bucketfuls, bucketing, buckets, bucketsful, buckeye, buckeyes, bucking, buckish, buckle, buckled, buckler, bucklered, bucklering, bucklers, buckles, buckling, buckminsterfullerene, buckminsterfullerenes, bucko, buckoes, buckos, buckra, buckram, buckramed, buckraming, buckrams, buckras, bucks, bucksaw, bucksaws, buckshee, buckshees, buckshot. (additional references)

Words ending with "buck": blesbuck, bushbuck, gemsbuck, jumbuck, kebbuck, megabuck, reedbuck, roebuck, sawbuck, waterbuck. (additional references)

Words containing "buck": blesbucks, bushbucks, gemsbucks, gutbucket, gutbuckets, jumbucks, kebbucks, megabucks, parbuckle, parbuckled, parbuckles, parbuckling, reedbucks, roebucks, sawbucks, swashbuckle, swashbuckled, swashbuckler, swashbucklers, swashbuckles, swashbuckling, trebucket, trebuckets, turnbuckle, turnbuckles, unbuckle, unbuckled, unbuckles, unbuckling, waterbucks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Buck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Auck, bacc, backg, Backx, bauc, Bbci, bc, bcm, bick, bicka, blck, bouc, buak, buc, Buca, Bucci, buch, bucka, Bucke, Buckow, bucky, Buco, buick, buik, buk, buka, buke, buko, Burck, burk, Bushika, Butko, bux, Fucka, hbcu, ibuki, Obukw, Rbupc, Uccc, uck, Ucko, ukccc, zuck. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cub.

+1 letter: bucko, bucks.

+2 letters: backup, bucked, bucker, bucket, buckle, buckos, buckra, chabuk.

+3 letters: backout, backups, buckeen, buckers, buckets, buckeye, bucking, buckish, buckled, buckler, buckles, buckoes, buckram, buckras, bucksaw, bullock, burdock, buttock, buyback, chabouk, chabuks, chibouk, cutback, cutbank, hackbut, jumbuck, kebbuck, outback, roebuck, runback, sackbut, sawbuck, sunback, unblock.

+4 letters: backhaul, backouts, backrush, blackgum, blackout, blesbuck, bluejack, bluetick, buckaroo, buckayro, buckbean, buckeens, buckeroo, bucketed, buckeyes, bucklers, buckling, buckrams, bucksaws, buckshee, buckshot, buckskin, bucktail, bullneck, bullocks, bullocky, burdocks, bushbuck, buttocks, buybacks, chabouks, chibouks, cutbacks, cutbanks, duckbill, fullback, gemsbuck, hackbuts, humpback, jumbucks, kebbucks, megabuck, outbacks, pullback, reedbuck, roebucks, runbacks, sackbuts, sawbucks, subblock, subclerk, sunblock, unbacked, unblocks, unbuckle.