Definitions for bucked

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bucked bucked

Spelling: [buhkt]

IPA: /bʌkt/

Bucked is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in bucked (bcdeku).

Definitions for bucked

noun

1. an act of bucking.
2. a sawhorse.
3. 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.
4. any of various heavy frames, racks, or jigs used to support materials or partially assembled items during manufacture, as in airplane assembly plants.
5. 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.
6. Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
7. lye used for washing clothes.
8. clothes washed in lye.

Idioms

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

adjective

1. happy; elated.

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 bucked

First recorded in 1905-10; buck² + -ed²

Examples for bucked

Her parents were told to institutionalize her, but thankfully, they bucked the conventional advice.

And the girl—Miss Desha has bucked poverty like a thoroughbred.

bucked and throwed me, but I kept my holt o' the stirrups with my foot—so!

I'd like to hear Weary or anybody else stand up and tell me that I got bucked off.

He bucked up firewood and stacked it to move into camp with the first snow.

Born a peasant, she bucked the system, donned armor to save her country, and paid for those choices with her life.

Mother's fearfully' bucked, and Dawker's simply oozing triumph.

The academic field is famously hostile to believers and Aslan has bucked that worldview.

Bloom, of course, both started and bucked the trend with How to Read and Why.

Mr. Kagan resigned the deanship in April 1992, lobbing a parting bomb at the faculty that bucked his administration.