buck
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Definitions ofbuck
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- A fop or dandy.
- A black or Native American man.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
Example: "Can I borrow five bucks?"
- A rand (currency unit).
- (by extension) Money.
Example: "Corporations will do anything to make a buck."
- One hundred.
Example: "That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter [125 pounds]."
- 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 served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- (in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
Example: "pass the buck"
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- One million dollars.
- A euro.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See Street Rodder "Making a Wood Buck".
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- A type of African American traditional clogging.
- The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
- The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
- A hybrid plant.
- A stubborn person.
- A person paid to smuggle drugs.
- A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
- A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
- Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
- A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
- A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
- A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
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