Definitions for Bucks

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Spelling: [buhks]
IPA: /bʌks/

Bucks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in Bucks (bcksu).

Definitions for Bucks

noun

  1. Buckinghamshire.
  2. the male of the deer, antelope, rabbit, hare, sheep, or goat.
  3. the male of certain other animals, as the shad.
  4. an impetuous, dashing, or spirited man or youth.
  5. Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an American Indian male or a black male.
  6. buckskin.
  7. bucks, casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often in white or a neutral color.
  8. an act of bucking.
  9. a sawhorse.
  10. 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.
  11. any of various heavy frames, racks, or jigs used to support materials or partially assembled items during manufacture, as in airplane assembly plants.
  12. 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.
  13. Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  14. lye used for washing clothes.
  15. clothes washed in lye.
  16. a dollar.
  17. Pearl (Sydenstricker) [sahyd-n-strik-er] /ˈsaɪd nˌstrɪk ər/ (Show IPA), 1892–1973, U.S. novelist: Nobel Prize 1938.
  18. a male given name.

Idioms

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

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 Bucks

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 Bucks

They were supperless, but it was very exciting, and Bucks was extremely happy.

Bucks rolled headlong as his horse plunged into the loose débris.

Leonard: “Fifty thousand Bucks was about what I was going to have to borrow, quick.”

“We got 7,000 kids at ten Bucks a head, and grossed $70,000,” Hirschhorn recalls.

Thousand Bucks a movie, seventeen informative minutes in length.

Bucks ran to the station to report the train and the disappearance of the engine.

So, once we were finished cutting it together and before we took it to Sundance, I sold him a copy for fifty Bucks.

Bucks looked with admiration at the soldier-constructionist.

I was the kid making a tidy profit burning CDs for all my friends at two Bucks a pop back during the Napster heyday in 2000.

To these two more experienced men was now to be added a third, Bucks.

Word Value for Bucks
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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