buck

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.

(US)An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

(Africa)An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.

The sound made by a chicken.

A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

(British, obsolete)A fop or dandy.

Đồng nghĩa: macaroni, popinjay, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff

(US, dated, derogatory)A black or Native American man.

(Australia, derogatory, obsolete)An Aboriginal man.

(US, slang)(US, military slang, WWI–WWII) Lowest rank; a private.

A unit of a particular currency

(US, slang)One hundred.

The police caught me driving a buck forty [140 miles per hour] on the freeway.

That skinny guy? C’mon, he can’t weigh more than a buck and a quarter [125 pounds].

Đồng nghĩa: ton

(abbreviation, alt of, clipping)Clipping of buckshot.

He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.

(intransitive)To copulate, as bucks and does.

(intransitive)To bend; buckle.

(intransitive)(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 to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.

1849, Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy, William Carron, Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, 2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121, At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp.

(transitive)(transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

(broadly, intransitive)(intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution.

(broadly, intransitive)(intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.

(broadly, transitive)(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.

1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure [I] Asked if he wanted to go to a punk rock concert Saturday & he had another engagement but he would buck it because it sure sounded much more fun going with me.

(transitive)(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 by the knees.

(US, slang)(US, military slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.

(metalworking, construction) To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.

(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.