buck

Etymology 1
From, , , from , , , from , , from , , from. .

Currency-related senses hail from American English, a as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748).

The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by as in.

The sense of an object indicating someone’s turn then occurred in American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck, which reinforced the term “pass the buck” used in poker, and eventually a silver dollar was used in place of a knife, which also led to a dollar being referred to as a buck.

Noun

 * 1) A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, shad and kangaroo.
 * 2)  An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
 * 3)  An antelope of either sex; compare with 🇨🇬.
 * 4) A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
 * 5)  A fop or dandy.
 * 6)  A black or Native American man.
 * 7) * 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
 * She got so she'd rather have a buck nigger than me!
 * 1)  Lowest rank; a private.
 * 2)  A dollar (one hundred cents).
 * 3)  A rand (currency unit).
 * 4)  A sixpence.
 * three and a buck, i.e. three shillings and sixpence
 * 1)  A euro.
 * 2)  Money.
 * 3)  One million dollars.
 * 4)  One hundred.
 * 5)  The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
 * 6) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
 * 7) A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
 * 8) A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
 * 9)  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.
 * 10)  Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
 * 11)  A kind of large marble in children's games.
 * 12)  An unlicensed cabman.
 * 1)  One million dollars.
 * 2)  One hundred.
 * 3)  The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
 * 4) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
 * 5) A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
 * 6) A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
 * 7)  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.
 * 8)  Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
 * 9)  A kind of large marble in children's games.
 * 10)  An unlicensed cabman.
 * 1) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
 * 2) A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
 * 3) A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
 * 6)  A kind of large marble in children's games.
 * 7)  An unlicensed cabman.
 * 1)  A kind of large marble in children's games.
 * 2)  An unlicensed cabman.
 * 1)  A kind of large marble in children's games.
 * 2)  An unlicensed cabman.
 * 1)  An unlicensed cabman.

Synonyms

 * , dealer button
 * , dealer button
 * , dealer button
 * , dealer button
 * , dealer button
 * , dealer button

Translations

 * Arabic: وَعْل, كَبْش
 * Bulgarian:, мъжкар
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish: buk
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: cerviĉo, vircervo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: havur
 * Finnish:,  ,
 * French:
 * Galician: beche,, , hirco,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: αρσενικό ελάφι
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: poc
 * Italian: Maschio di cervo,, , , , coniglio o canguro
 * Kashmiri:
 * Middle English: bukke
 * Navajo: bįįhkąʼ, bįįstsoh
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: bucca, bucc
 * Old Norse: hafr
 * Ottoman Turkish: تكه, اركج
 * Portuguese: (“male”; some male animals have unique names),
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fear-choinean
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:, , , cabrío,  del conejo
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: bwch


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian: долар
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish: baks, ,
 * Russian:, , (informal)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:, ,
 * Italian:


 * Finnish: musta pekka,
 * Italian:


 * Crimean Tatar:

Verb

 * 1)  To copulate, as bucks and does.

Etymology 2
From dialectal, from  or , , intensive forms of  and , both from , from , from. Influenced in some senses by buck “male goat” (see above). Sense “to meet, to encounter” is a.

Compare and.

Verb

 * 1)  To bend; buckle.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) * 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.
 * 1)  To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
 * 4)  To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
 * 5)  To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
 * 6)  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.
 * 7) * 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.
 * 1)  To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
 * 2)  To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
 * 3)  To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
 * 4)  To fuck.
 * 5)  To meet, to encounter, to come across.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1)  To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
 * 2)  To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
 * 3)  To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
 * 4)  To fuck.
 * 5)  To meet, to encounter, to come across.
 * 1)  To meet, to encounter, to come across.
 * 1)  To meet, to encounter, to come across.
 * 1)  To meet, to encounter, to come across.
 * 1)  To meet, to encounter, to come across.
 * 1)  To meet, to encounter, to come across.
 * 1)  To meet, to encounter, to come across.

Translations

 * Czech: vyhazovat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tūpeke, tānapu
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * German: sich widersetzen
 * Russian:

Etymology 3
See.

Noun

 * 1)  The beech tree.

Etymology 4
From, ultimately related to the root of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
 * 2) * 1673, Robert Almond, The English Horseman and Complete Farrier, London: Simon Miller, Chapter 25 “Maunginess in the Main,” p. 236,
 * when you find the scurf to fall off, wash the Neck and other parts with Buck Lye made blood warm.
 * 1) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

Verb

 * 1)  To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
 * 2) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
 * 3)  To break up or pulverize, as ores.

Etymology 5
From, from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
 * 2)  Belly, breast, chest.
 * 3)  Size.

Verb

 * 1)  To swell out.

Verb

 * 1)  To boast or brag.
 * 2) * 1880, Ali Baba (page 164)
 * And then he bucks with a quiet stubborn determination that would fill an American editor, or an Under Secretary of State with despair. He belongs to the 12-foot-tiger school, so perhaps he can't help it.

Verb

 * 1) (usually followed by up pon) To bump; To bump into; To encounter
 * 2) To fuck.
 * 1) To fuck.
 * 1) To fuck.
 * 1) To fuck.
 * 1) To fuck.
 * 1) To fuck.