Definitions for Buck

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Buck buck

Spelling: [buhk]

IPA: /bʌk/

Buck is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Buck (bcku).

Definitions for Buck

noun

1. the male of the deer, antelope, rabbit, hare, sheep, or goat.
2. the male of certain other animals, as the shad.
3. an impetuous, dashing, or spirited man or youth.
4. Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an American Indian male or a black male.
5. buckskin.
6. bucks, casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often in white or a neutral color.
7. an act of bucking.
8. a sawhorse.
9. Gymnastics. a cylindrical, leather-covered block mounted in a horizontal position on a single vertical post set in a steel frame, for use chiefly in vaulting.
10. any of various heavy frames, racks, or jigs used to support materials or partially assembled items during manufacture, as in airplane assembly plants.
11. Also called door buck. a doorframe of wood or metal set in a partition, especially one of light masonry, to support door hinges, hardware, finish work, etc.
12. Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
13. lye used for washing clothes.
14. clothes washed in lye.
15. a dollar.
16. Pearl (Sydenstricker) [sahyd-n-strik-er] /ˈsaɪd nˌstrɪk ər/ (Show IPA), 1892–1973, U.S. novelist: Nobel Prize 1938.
17. a male given name.

Idioms

1. pass the buck, to shift responsibility or blame to another person:

adverb

1. completely; stark:

adjective

1. Military. of the lowest of several ranks involving the same principal designation, hence subject to promotion within the rank:

Verb phrases

1. buck for, to strive for a promotion or some other advantage:
2. buck up, to make or become more cheerful, vigorous, etc.:
3. buck in, Surveying, Optical Tooling. to set up an instrument in line with two marks.

verb (used with object)

1. to throw or attempt to throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
2. to force a way through or proceed against (an obstacle):
3. to strike with the head; butt.
4. to resist or oppose obstinately; object strongly to.
5. Football. (of a ball-carrier) to charge into (the opponent's line).
6. to gamble, play, or take a risk against:
7. to press a reinforcing device against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
8. to split or saw (logs, felled trees, etc.).
9. to pass (something) along to another, especially as a means of avoiding responsibility or blame:
10. to wash or bleach (clothes) in lye.

verb (used without object)

1. (of a saddle or pack animal) to leap with arched back and come down with head low and forelegs stiff, in order to dislodge a rider or pack.
2. Informal. to resist or oppose obstinately; object strongly:
3. (of a vehicle, motor, or the like) to operate unevenly; move by jerks and bounces.

verb (used without object), noun

1. bukh.

Origin of Buck

before 1000; Middle English bukke, Old English bucca he-goat, bucc male deer; cognate with Dutch bok, German Bock, Old Norse bukkr; def. 5, 6 by shortening; buck private (from circa 1870) per

Examples for Buck

All of which Andy heard, and he knew that buck Heath intended him to hear them.

In the tiny seaside town of Yacahts, Oregon, buck Henderson is ready to die.

"Spoils the hoof to put the knife on the sole, buck," said the smith.

"Come over to the saloon, buck, and have one on me," said Jasper.

President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The buck Stops Here.”

Jamming Netanyahu at the UN will buck him up among the right.

And if she does buck that tide, it does not necessarily mean that it is end of the Warren for President boomlet.

buck would turn on his heel and stand, towering, in the door.

Andy chose the careful insult which he would throw in buck's face.

Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.