Buck

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Synonyms 1.1.2 Translations 1.1.3 See also 1.2 Intransitive verb 1.3 Transitive verb 1.4 Related terms

English

Noun

buck

1. A male deer or goat.
2. A male rabbit or hare.
3. A male of other species, such as the ferret.
4. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
5. (US colloquial) A dollar.
6. A young buck: an adventurous or high-spirited young man.
7. (UK, obsolete) By extension of (6), a fop or dandy.
8. A piece put in front of the dealer in the pocker card game. The buck stops with smb - smb assumes all the responsibility.
9. Blame; responsibility; scapegoat; finger-pointing.

   The buck stops here. -U.S. President Harry S. Truman

Synonyms

• (1): (goat) billy-goat, buck-goat, he-goat
• (3): (ferret) hob, hob-ferret
• (4): ram, tup
• (5): greenback

Translations

Dutch: bok (1, ) German: Bock m (1, 2 [domestic rabbit], 4); Rammler (2 wild); Rüde (3)

See also

• (1): nanny, nanny-goat, she-goat
• (1, 2): doe
• (3): gill, jill
• (4): ewe

Intransitive verb

to buck

1. Of a horse: to rise sharply up on its hind legs.
2. Of a horse: to leap upward arching its back.

   1848: At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about — Statement by Jackey Jackey (an Aborigine) published in William Carron Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy (at Project Gutenberg Australia)

3. By extension of (1), to move in any sharp or jerking manner.
4. By extension of (1), to resist obstinately.

Transitive verb

to buck for

1. By extension of buck, verb sense (1), to strive for persistently.

Related terms

• buckskin (n. 1)
• pass the buck (n., etymology disputed)
• the buck stops here
• bucking bronco (v. 1)
• buck the trend (v. 2)
• buck up
• sawbuck

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