A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, shad and kangaroo.
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
(Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
(British, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
(US, slang) Lowest rank; a private.
(Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, informal) A unit of a particular currency
(South-Africa, informal) A unit of a particular currency
(UK, obsolete, slang) A unit of a particular currency
(informal, rare) A unit of a particular currency
(Australia, South-Africa, US, broadly, informal) A unit of a particular currency
A unit of a particular currency
(US, slang) One hundred.
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of buckshot.
(UK, dialectal) An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
(dated) An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
(broadly, dated) An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
(dated) Synonym of buck dance.
Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
(dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
(UK, obsolete, slang) An unlicensed cabman.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

(intransitive) To bend; buckle.
(intransitive) 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.
(transitive) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
(broadly, intransitive) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
(broadly, intransitive) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
(broadly, transitive) 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.
(transitive) 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) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
(Ireland, euphemistic, humorous) To fuck.
(Multicultural-London-English) To meet, to encounter, to come across.

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

To swell out.

To boast or brag.

bucks

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buck

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