| buck | |
| 1. s. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad. | |
| 2. s. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram. | |
| 3. s. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man. | |
| 4. s. (UK, obsolete) A fop or dandy. | |
| 5. s. (US, dated derogatory) A black or Native American man. | |
| 6. s. (US, Australia NZ Canada informal) A dollar (one hundred cents). | |
| Can I borrow five bucks? | |
| 7. s. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit). | |
| 8. s. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money | |
| Corporations will do anything to make a buck. | |
| 9. s. (US, slang) One hundred. | |
| The police caught me driving a buck forty on the freeway. | |
| That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter. | |
| 10. s. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be serve | |
| 11. s. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing. | |
| pass the buck; the buck stops here | |
| 12. s. (dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery. | |
| 13. s. (finance) One million dollars. | |
| 14. s. (informal) A euro. | |
| 15. s. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. | |
| 16. s. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See. | |
| 17. s. (synonym of mule) (type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.) | |
| 18. v. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive) To bend; buckle. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt | |
| 21. v. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed | |
| 23. v. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly. | |
| The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution. | |
| 24. v. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner. | |
| The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against. | |
| The plane bucked a strong headwind. | |
| Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees. | |
| John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well. | |
| 26. v. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation. | |
| 27. v. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood. | |
| 28. v. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter | |
| 29. s. (Scotland) The beech tree. | |
| 30. s. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. | |
| 31. s. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. | |
| 32. v. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process. | |
| 33. v. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. | |
| 34. v. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores. | |
