buck

Signification

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 Afrikaans bok.
4. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
5. (obsolete) A fop or dandy.
6. A black or Native American man.
7. (slang) Lowest rank; a private.
8. (informal) A unit of a particular currency
9. (informal) A unit of a particular currency
10. (obsolete,slang) A unit of a particular currency
11. (informal) A unit of a particular currency
12. (informal) A unit of a particular currency
13. A unit of a particular currency
14. (slang) One hundred.
15. Clipping of buckshot.
16. An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
17. An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
18. An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
19. An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
20. An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
21. An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
22. Synonym of buck dance.
23. Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
24. (slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
25. (obsolete,slang) An unlicensed cabman.

Verb

To copulate, as bucks and does.

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. To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
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. 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.
8. (slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
9. To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
10. To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
11. To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
12. To fuck.
13. To meet, to encounter, to come across.

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.

Verb

To swell out.

Verb

To boast or brag.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bʌk/

Étymologie

From Middle English bukke, bucke, buc, from Old English buc, bucc, bucca (“he-goat, stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“buck”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“ram”). Doublet of puck (billy goat).
Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748).
The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by Dutch bok (“sawhorse”) as in zaagbok (“sawbuck”).
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.