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buck
1. slang A dollar. Primarily heard in US. Could I borrow a buck to get something from the vending machine?I can't believe this thing costs 30 bucks!
2. slang Money in general. Primarily heard in US. You can't prioritize making a quick buck over the wellbeing of your employees.With so many things to do inside the theme park, you really get a lot of bang for your buck.
3. slang One hundred (of something). Primarily heard in US. A: 'I used a weigh a buck and a half in college.' B: 'Tom, you haven't been 150 pounds since you were in middle school.'Cops nailed him for doing a buck twenty-five on the highway.
4. Responsibility or culpability. Used especially in the phrases 'pass the buck' and 'the buck stops here/with (someone).' Politicians have two skills—making empty promises and passing the buck when they fail to deliver on them.You'll need to talk to Jed if you want things to change. The buck stops with him around here.
5. offensive slang An extremely derogatory term for a male person of color, especially an African American or Native American.
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buck
1. n. a dollar. Gimme a buck for a bottle of wine, will you mister?
2. tv. to resist something. He enjoys bucking the system.
3. n. a buckskin (leather) shoe. (Usually plural.) Look at my new white bucks!
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Juego the forest. Buck may refer to:
Common meanings[edit]
- A colloquialism for a dollar or similar currency in some colonial countries like America and Australia which has dollar as its currency
- An adult male in some animal species including deer; see List of animal names
- Derby shoes, nicknamed 'bucks' for the common use of buckskin in their making
People[edit]
- Buck (given name), a list of people
- Buck (nickname), a list of people
- Buck (surname), a list of people
- Buck 65, stage name of Canadian hip hop artist Richard Terfry
- Bunkhouse Buck, stage name of American professional wrestler James Golden (born 1950)
- David Paul Grove (born 1958), Canadian voice actor, often credited as 'Buck'
- Young Buck, stage name of David Darnell Brown (born 1981), American rapper
Places in the United States[edit]
- Buck, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
Fictional characters[edit]
Florence Lucille Buck Butler
- Buck Cannon, in the American television show The High Chaparral
- Buck Cluck, Chicken Little's father in the 2005 film Chicken Little
- Buck Frobisher, on the television series Due South, played by Leslie Nielsen
- Buck Grangerford, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Buck Huckster, in the cartoon Beverly Hills Teens
- Buck Laughlin, in the 2000 film Best in Show
- Buck McCann, a character in an episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
- Buck Mulligan, in James Joyce's novel Ulysses
- Buck O'Brien, protagonist in the 2000 film Chuck & Buck
- Buck Rogers, a science fiction hero from the 1930s and 1970s
- Buck Russell, the title character in the 1989 film Uncle Buck, played by John Candy
- Buck Tuddrussel, a main character from Cartoon Network's show Time Squad, voiced by Rob Paulsen
- Buck Turgidson, a general in the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, played by George C. Scott
- Cameron 'Buck' Williams, a reporter in the Left Behind novel series
- Buck, the canine central character of the 1903 novel The Call of the Wild
- Buck, the family dog on the television sitcom Married.. with Children
- Buck, a horse in the 2004 Disney movie Home on the Range, voiced by Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Buck, a main character in the video game 187 Ride or Die
- Buck, a weasel in the movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, played by Simon Pegg
- Buck, Arlo's triplet sibling in the video The Good Dinosaur
- Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, in the Halo 3: ODST and Halo 5: Guardians video games
- Joe Buck, title character of the novel and film Midnight Cowboy
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Other uses[edit]
Buck Knives
- a krump dance style
- Buck: A Memoir, a 2013 book by MK Asante
- Buck (crater), on Venus
- Buck (design company), a design-driven creative commercial production company
- Buck (film), a 2011 documentary
- Buck (human resources consulting company), a human resources consulting company
- Buck Knives, an American knife manufacturer
- Buck (magazine), a defunct UK publication (2008-2011)
- Buck (software), software for building other software
- Buck (video game), a 2017 side-scrolling beat 'em up
- BUCK, a brony convention in Manchester, UK
- USS Buck, several United States Navy ships
See also[edit]
- Buck converter, a voltage step down and current step up converter
- Bucking, a movement by a horse when the animal kicks out with both hind legs
- Log bucking, cutting timbers to length
Buck Synonyms
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