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Meaning of 'Buck' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Buck [ n.]
- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
- A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
- A male Indian or negro.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- The beech tree.
2 . Buck [ v. i.]
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
3 . Buck [ v. t.]
- To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

Meaning of 'Buck' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . buck [ v]
Meaning (1):
- resist
Example in sentence:
  • buck the trend
Meaning (2):
- move quickly and violently
Example in sentence:
  • He came charging into my office;
  • The car tore down the street
Meaning (3):
- to strive with determination
Example in sentence:
  • John is bucking for a promotion
Meaning (4):
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
Example in sentence:
  • the yung filly bucked

Nearby Words:

buccal buccaneer buccaneerish buccinal buccinator buccinoid buccinum bucentaur buceros bucholzite

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