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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
buck
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
big bucks
▪ Her parents spent big bucks on her wedding.
buck teeth
buck the trend (=do something that is not what is generally happening)
▪ The recession may still be biting, but video games company Nintendo continues to buck the trend.
Buck's Fizz
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ And it provides lists of San Francisco Bay area residents who have handed big bucks to candidates.
▪ Maybe it's the nations healthy suspicion of flash gestures and big bucks.
▪ At the same time, employees see their CEOs raking in the big bucks.
▪ Meanwhile, the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street's investment bankers were starting to dry up.
▪ And there are big bucks to be had, from $ 350 for first place to $ 50 for third.
▪ One day I took the beasts hunting and they raised a big fat buck.
▪ For instance, the network has shelled out big bucks to snare Bill Cosby for a new sitcom in the fall.
fast
▪ I think people go out to make a fast buck without worrying about the consequences.
▪ All you had to do was write about it afterwards, and you could make a real fast buck.
▪ We are not in this for a fast buck.
▪ A fast buck Henry Rix 12.45:IT is hard to envisage anything but the front two in the market winning this Grade Two contest.
quick
▪ That means forgetting about the quick bucks to be made from selling nuclear technology.
▪ Wouldn't you like to make a quick buck, Derek?
▪ Of course no bright young thing who wants to make a quick buck would consider going into the ministry.
▪ Others would prefer just to fuel the war - and make a quick buck at the same time.
young
▪ That's why she hates young bucks like you, Harry.
▪ I mean, without knowing it ... She's always been one to surround herself with young bucks.
▪ All the young men were bucks - a young buck in the old days used to be a gentleman.
▪ A young buck private saw the first body as they approached the village.
■ VERB
cost
▪ I've also got an Explorer which cost me four hundred bucks - mind you, there's no case with that.
▪ It cost five bucks to get in, and then 25-cent beers from there.
▪ The electorate will buy what they're shown is right, though persuading them costs a lot of bucks.
▪ Unfortunately, the weapon mopping up after the Cold War is very lethal, costs a few hundred bucks and is everywhere.
get
▪ They got three hundred bucks at the end of each week and spent it.
▪ If I would have picked it up, it would have blown up: He picks it up and gets 50 bucks.
▪ I've got a few bucks on me.
▪ Become a student and get paid the big bucks.
give
▪ Next, Tod goes and gives him eight hundred bucks.
make
▪ Me thinks another pilgrim is trying to make a buck.
▪ Still others, to make a buck.
▪ I also want to make some serious bucks out of this.
▪ The idea was to hang together, keep in touch with the audience and maybe make a few bucks.
▪ I think people go out to make a fast buck without worrying about the consequences.
▪ You muddle through, reduced to selling your own ads to make a decent buck.
▪ Wouldn't you like to make a quick buck, Derek?
▪ Flip open any page and somebody is making a buck.
pass
▪ If in doubt, pass the buck.
▪ Shouldn't we now be acknowledging blame rather than passing the buck?
▪ I personally refuse to pass the buck.
▪ We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck.
▪ Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck.
▪ Mr. Loyden Is not the Minister passing the buck?
▪ When anything like this happened, every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department.
pay
▪ Either pay some one big bucks to do it for you, or learn what it takes and do it yourself.
▪ Become a student and get paid the big bucks.
▪ Fans pay big bucks to watch them, and a $ 65 hockey ticket comes with a license to boo.
▪ Non-county residents pay a couple extra bucks.
spend
▪ Want great graphics without spending big bucks on software?
▪ I spend three bucks a week on Trojans because the pill makes you waterlogged and puffy.
▪ They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(get) a bigger/better etc bang for your buck
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
▪ I felt like a million dollars.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Could I borrow ten bucks?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A couple of the older bucks are very dark with fine, wide antlers.
▪ Bet 10 bucks on some 20-year-olds.
▪ But a million bucks was a million bucks.
▪ Fallow deer, he says, are less pricey - a buck will fetch around £4-500, a doe about £80-90.
▪ For 100 bucks an ounce, you can stink like us.
▪ I'd moved my head far too quickly for it to look natural, and the buck shot off up the bank.
▪ I had to sell it for what I could get, which was five bucks, and start hitchhiking home.
▪ That means forgetting about the quick bucks to be made from selling nuclear technology.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
▪ The weather bucked up once we were back, tho' it is far from warm.
▪ Hey, buck up, Jerry.
▪ I say, buck up, Bill - if you're man enough for Gennifer, you're man enough for me!
▪ Short-term projects to improve customer service might buck up the conviction of those managers.
▪ I wish it would buck up and be Monday.
▪ Dust curls as the limos kick and buck up the track towards the freeway.
■ NOUN
hundred
▪ Six hundred bucks, on the other hand, is 600 bucks.
idea
▪ Meanwhile, both Severiano Ballesteros and Jose-Maria Olazabal had bucked their ideas up.
million
▪ But a million bucks was a million bucks.
▪ But if he lost, he was out of pocket a million bucks.
month
▪ Three bucks a month, every month, for what?
system
▪ Natural rebels, backed up with the guts it takes to buck the system.
▪ Another teacher with an unconventional style, bucking the system and saving kids.
▪ Attempts to buck that system would end in the courtrooms or, as likely, unemployment.
▪ But at the crucial moment, Burton had bucked the system.
▪ To do so they would have to buck the very system on which they now depend.
▪ Unconventional Cylinders Many inventors attempted to buck the system by making alterations to existing machinery.
thousand
▪ Sure, a kid can make several thousand bucks a week, more even.
▪ A thousand bucks bonus I gave you this week, mothafucka!
trend
▪ Electricity shares bucked the trend and rallied, but water sprang a few leaks.
▪ But water shares bucked the trend and, as usual, were a haven in times of trouble.
▪ Some tech issues bucked the selling trend.
▪ The shares bucked the market trend, rising one penny to 491p.
▪ Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp. bucked the trend, gaining 3 3 / 4 to 77 1 / 4.
▪ Cider is bucking the national trend ... beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period.
▪ Dallas and Houston also bucked the trend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Attempts to buck that system would end in the courtrooms or, as likely, unemployment.
▪ But water shares bucked the trend and, as usual, were a haven in times of trouble.
▪ Dallas and Houston also bucked the trend.
▪ Governors rarely buck their chairman and directly reject his recommendations.
▪ Last year it took 32 % of the mobile phone market and is looking to buck the worldwide trend.
▪ Natural rebels, backed up with the guts it takes to buck the system.
▪ Some tech issues bucked the selling trend.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
buck

Sawhorse \Saw"horse`\, n. A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.

buck

low-level \low-level\ adj.

  1. weak; not intense; as, low-level radiation.

  2. lower in rank or importance. [Narrower terms: adjunct, assistant; associate(prenominal) ; {buck ; {deputy(prenominal), proxy(prenominal) ; {subject, dependent ; {subservient ] [Narrower terms: {under(prenominal) ; {ruled ; {secondary ] Also See {inferior, s ubordinate. Antonym: dominant.

    Syn: subordinate.

  3. at a low level in rank or importance; as, a low-level job; low-level discussions.

  4. occurring at a relatively low altitude; as, a low-level strafing run; low-level bombing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
buck

"male deer," c.1300, earlier "male goat;" from Old English bucca "male goat," from Proto-Germanic *bukkon (cognates: Old Saxon buck, Middle Dutch boc, Dutch bok, Old High German boc, German Bock, Old Norse bokkr), perhaps from a PIE root *bhugo (cognates: Avestan buza "buck, goat," Armenian buc "lamb"), but some speculate that it is from a lost pre-Germanic language. Barnhart says Old English buc "male deer," listed in some sources, is a "ghost word or scribal error."\n

\nMeaning "dollar" is 1856, American English, perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin, a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days, attested in this sense from 1748. Pass the buck is first recorded in the literal sense 1865, American English:The 'buck' is any inanimate object, usually knife or pencil, which is thrown into a jack pot and temporarily taken by the winner of the pot. Whenever the deal reaches the holder of the 'buck', a new jack pot must be made. [J.W. Keller, "Draw Poker," 1887]Perhaps originally especially a buck-handled knife. The figurative sense of "shift responsibility" is first recorded 1912. Buck private is recorded by 1870s, of uncertain signification.

buck

1848, apparently with a sense of "jump like a buck," from buck (n.1). Related: Bucked; bucking. Buck up "cheer up" is from 1844.

buck

"sawhorse," 1817, American English, apparently from Dutch bok "trestle."

Wiktionary
buck

n. 1 (surname) 2 (given name: male)

WordNet
buck

adj. of the lowest rank in a category; "a buck private"

buck
  1. n. a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting [syn: vaulting horse, long horse]

  2. a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, clam]

  3. United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973) [syn: Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck]

  4. a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: sawhorse, horse, sawbuck]

  5. mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

buck
  1. v. to strive with determination; "John is bucking for a promotion"

  2. resist; "buck the trend" [syn: go against]

  3. move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge]

  4. jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked" [syn: jerk, hitch]

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Buck

Buck may refer to:

Buck (crater)

Buck is a crater in the Navka region of Venus. It has the terraced walls, flat radar-dark floor, and central peak that are characteristic of craters classified as 'complex'. The central peak on its floor is unusually large. Flow-like deposits extend beyond the limits of the coarser rim deposits on its west and southwest. Like about half of the craters mapped by Magellan to date, it is surrounded by a local, radar-dark halo.

Buck (magazine)

Buck was a monthly men's magazine based in London, the United Kingdom, and available internationally, focusing on fashion, design and food. It was launched on 30 October 2008 as an independent title edited by Steve Doyle. The magazine was part of the Buck Publishing Ltd. Buck ceased publication on 5 January 2011.

Buck (cocktail)

Buck, and also mule, are slightly antiquated names for a family of historic mixed drinks that involve ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and any of a number of base liquors.

Buck (film)

Buck is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Cindy Meehl. The film focuses on the life, career, and philosophy of the real-life "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman.

Buck (company)

Buck is a design-driven creative commercial production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York. Buck is an international collective of directors, producers, digital artists, graphic designers, illustrators and animators that combine their skills to create innovative media across all mediums for advertising and entertainment clients.

Buck (nickname)

Buck is the nickname of the following people (for fictional characters, see Buck):

Buck (software)

Buck is a build system developed and used by Facebook. It encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources, and supports a variety of languages on many platforms.

Buck (surname)

Buck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Antony Buck (1928–2003), British politician
  • C. Douglass Buck (1890–1965), American engineer and politician, Governor and Senator of Delaware
  • Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955), American linguist
  • Carrie Buck (1906–1983), unsuccessful plaintiff in Buck v. Bell, which upheld compulsory sterilization
  • Craig Buck (born 1958), former volleyball player
  • Daniel Buck (1753–1816), United States Representative from Vermont
  • Daniel Buck (judge) (1829-1905), American jurist and politician
  • David Buck (1936–1989), British actor
  • Detlev Buck (born 1962), German film director
  • Dudley Buck (1839–1909), American composer
  • Dudley Allen Buck (1927–1959), American scientist, engineer, educator, and inventor
  • Frank Buck (animal collector) (1884–1950), animal collector and film director
  • Frank Buck (politician) (born 1943), American politician
  • Fred Buck (1880–1952), British football player
  • George Buck (1560–1622), English antiquarian
  • George L. Buck (1866-1939), American politician
  • Gilles Buck (born 1935), French sailor who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
  • Gurdon Buck (1807–1877), American surgeon, performed first clinical photograph, contributed to numerous fields of surgery
  • Harold Buck, British rugby league footballer
  • Harry Buck (1884–1943), American coach and physical education instructor
  • Jack Buck (1924–2002), American sportscaster
  • Jim Buck (1931–2013), American dog walker
  • Joe Buck (born 1969), American sportscaster
  • John Buck (baseball player) (born 1980), American baseball player
  • John E. Buck (born 1946), American sculptor and printmaker
  • John R. Buck (1835–1917), United States congressman
  • Julie Buck (born 1974), American artist and photographer
  • Ken Buck (born 1959), American politician
  • Leonard W. Buck (1834-1895), American businessman, rancher and politician
  • Nathaniel Buck (died 1759/1774), English engraver and printmaker, brother of Samuel Buck
  • Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), American novelist
  • Percy Buck (1871–1947), English musician
  • Peter Buck (born 1956), American musician
  • Peter Buck, or Te Rangi Hīroa (1877–1951), New Zealand doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist and museum director
  • Peter Buck (restaurateur) (born 1930), co-founder of Subway Sandwiches
  • Peter Buck (mayor) (died 1625), mayor of Medway
  • Rob Buck (1958–2000), North American guitarist and songwriter
  • Robert Creighton Buck (1920–1998), American mathematician
  • Samantha Buck (born 1974), American actress
  • Samuel Buck (1696-1779), English engraver and printmaker, brother of Nathaniel Buck
  • Solon J. Buck (1884–1962), Archivist of the United States
  • Tara Buck (born 1975), American actress
  • Tim Buck (1891–1973), long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada
  • Travis Buck (born 1983), American baseball player
  • Walt Buck (1930–2013), Canadian politician
Buck (given name)

The given name Buck may refer to:

  • Buck Canel (1906–80), American sportscaster
  • Buck Clayton (1911–91), American jazz musician
  • Buck Henry (born 1930), American actor, writer, and director
  • Buck Jones (1891–1942), American film actor
  • Buck Jordan (1907–93), American baseball player
  • Buck Leonard (1907–97), American baseball player
  • Buck Martinez (born 1948), American baseball player
  • Buck O'Neil (1911–2006), American baseball player and manager
  • Buck Owens (1929–2006), American singer and guitarist
  • Buck Ram (1907–91), American songwriter and music producer
  • Buck Rodgers (born 1938), former Major League Baseball catcher and manager of the Montreal Expos
  • Buck Showalter (born 1956), American baseball player and manager
  • Buck Pierce (born 1981), Canadian football quarterback
  • Buck Sexton (born c. 1982), American radio personality and political commentator

As a pseudonym:

  • Buck 65, stage name of Canadian hip hop artist Richard Terfry
  • Buck Angel, an American transman adult film producer and performer.
  • Frank "Buck" O'Neill (1875–1958), an American college football coach
  • Young Buck, stage name of David Darnell Brown (born 1981), American rapper
  • "Buck" Buchanan, nickname of James Buchanan (1791–1868), the fifteenth President of the United States
  • "Buck Compton", nickname of Lynn Compton (born 1921), retired United States Court of Appeals judge
  • "Buck Dharma", nickname of American guitarist Donald Roeser (born 1947)
  • Alexander "Buck" Choquette, Canadian prospector active in the California, Fraser and Stikine Gold Rushes
  • Buck Halperin (1928-85), nickname of Robert Halperin, American Olympic and Pan American Games yachting medalist, college and professional football player, one of Chicago's most-decorated World War II heroes, and Chairman of Commercial Light Co.
  • Buck, a pseudonym used by actor/voice artist David Paul Grove

Usage examples of "buck".

When he had turned on one of the impudent young bucks with a sudden snarl, Acer had laughed at him for his inability to take a joke.

It spun and bucked, alighting on stiffened legs, and Hilliard took flight, landing flat in a muddy puddle a full yard away.

Track Almanac had come through for a killing, and he had subscribed, though the ten bucks a week was a sixth of his salary.

Al would sound out those alumnae, or usually their husbands, who would pay big bucks for a sword of Washington.

Clipper One arrived back over the target the first irregular line of amphibious tanks, also called amtracs or LVTs or alligators, were churning and bucking the sea only a mile offshore.

The other members of the flock had forgiven him for the rancorous and sulky spirit which had made him refuse to catch in the ball-game against Hartford, in which Buck Badger had pitched, but they had not forgotten it.

He felt the devil was slipping hip wiggling and bebop rhythms into gospel, tempting groups and luring good Christians away from the Lord with the idea of making a fast buck.

Buck knows about Old Ben, and about where the captain might have gone-or maybe even Beeker and Nightingale.

Lee looked up and saw a strong middle-aged man in a black leather jacket, a beeper and a Buck knife and a cell on his belt line, with a younger white dude, also in a leather, had a cocky walk, coming toward him.

There were no Regency bucks there tonight, however, just a couple of dozen ageing rockers with a fascinating array of bimbettes on their knees, arms or various other parts of their anatomy.

Both halves fully fruited, the twinned spell drew apart, and bucked with a sudden burst of power The bipartite spell channeled, like searing irons, down her arms.

Joe tromped loudly into the house and transferred the twelve birdlets from bis pockets into an old-fashioned, hexagonal glass-paneled ballot jar which he had bought for five bucks at a Monte Vista, Colorado, auction.

You wanted to hear what I knew about Brye, so I told you, for five hundred bucks.

He bucked in a circle and in a straight line and then mixed both styles for variety.

He bucked criss-cross, jumping from side to side, and he interspersed this with samples of all his other kinds of bucking thrown in.