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==English==

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A male [[deer]], [[antelope]], [[sheep]], [[goat]], [[rabbit]], [[hare]], and sometimes the male of other animals such as the [[ferret]] and [[shad]].
# {{US}} An uncastrated sheep, a [[ram]].
# 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.
# {{Australia|US|informal}} A [[dollar]] (one hundred [[cent]]s).
# {{US|slang}} One hundred.
# {{dated}} 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.
# {{US|in certain metaphors or phrases}} [[blame|Blame]]; [[responsibility]]; [[scapegoat]]ing; [[finger-pointing]].
# (always plural, '''bucks''') Casual [[oxford]] shoes made of [[buckskin]], often white or a neutral color.
# {{UK|dialect}} The body of a [[windmill|post mill]], particularly in [[w:East Anglia|East Anglia]]. ''See'' Wikipedia:[[w:Mill_machinery#Windmill_machinery|Windmill machinery]].
# {{finance|jargon}} One million dollars.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{intransitive}} To [[bend]]; [[buckle]].
# {{intransitive}} (of a [[horse]], or similar saddle or pack animal) 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}} (of a horse, or similar saddle or pack animal) to successfully [[throw]] or attempt to throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
# {{intransitive}} (by extension) To resist [[obstinate]]ly; [[oppose]] or [[object]] strongly.
# {{intransitive}} (by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, [[jerk]]ing, or [[uneven]] manner.
# {{transitive}} (by extension) 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.
# {{context|riveting}} To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. 

===Adverbs for Buck===
spiritedly; suddenly; abruptly; belligerently; spitefully; venomously; wildly. 

===Thesaurus===
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[[elk]], [[entire]], [[entire horse]], [[exquisite]], [[fallow deer]], [[fawn]], [[fellow]], [[ferry]], [[fight]], [[fight against]], [[fish]], [[fledgling]], [[flying jump]], [[force]], [[frogskin]], [[galliard]], [[gander]], [[gazelle]], [[gee]], [[gelandesprung]], [[gelt]], [[gent]], [[gentleman]], [[gilt]], [[giraffe]], [[gnu]], [[goad]], [[goat]], [[gobbler]], [[grand jete]], [[grapple with]], [[grease]], [[green]], [[green stuff]], [[guy]], [[hand]], [[handspring]], [[hare]], [[hart]], [[hartebeest]], [[he]], [[he-goat]], [[high jump]], [[hind]], [[hippety-hop]], [[hobbledehoy]], [[hop]], [[horse]], [[hump]], [[hurdle]], [[hurtle]], [[hustle]], [[jab]], [[jack]], [[jackrabbit]], [[jam]], [[jete]], [[jig]], [[jog]], [[joggle]], [[join battle with]], [[jolt]], [[jostle]], [[jump]], [[jump over]], [[jump shot]], [[jump turn]], [[jump-hop]], [[jump-off]], [[kaama]], [[kale]], [[kid]], [[labor against]], [[lad]], [[laddie]], [[lapin]], [[lavolta]], [[leap]], [[leap over]], [[leapfrog]], [[leporide]], [[leveret]], [[long jump]], [[lounge lizard]], [[macaroni]], [[manchild]], [[master]], [[mazuma]], [[militate against]], [[moolah]], [[moose]], [[mopus]], [[morris]], [[mountain goat]], [[muchacho]], [[mule deer]], [[musk deer]], [[nanny]], [[nanny goat]], [[negotiate]], [[nudge]], [[offer resistance]], [[oil of palms]], [[ointment]], [[okapi]], [[oof]], [[ooftish]], [[oppose]], [[overjump]], [[overleap]], [[overskip]], [[pack]], [[peacock]], [[pile drive]], [[poke]], [[pole vault]], [[pounce]], [[pounce on]], [[pounce upon]], [[powder]], [[press]], [[prod]], [[punch]], [[pup]], [[puppy]], [[push]], [[rabbit]], [[ram]], [[ram down]], [[rattle]], [[reach]], [[red deer]], [[reindeer]], [[reluct]], [[reluctate]], [[repel]], [[rhino]], [[rival]], [[rocks]], [[roe]], [[roe deer]], [[roebuck]], [[rooster]], [[root out]], [[root up]], [[run]], [[run against]], [[running broad jump]], [[running high jump]], [[saut de basque]], [[sawbuck]], [[sawhorse]], [[schoolboy]], [[shake]], [[she-goat]], [[shekels]], [[shoot]], [[shoulder]], [[shove]], [[simoleons]], [[ski jump]], [[skin]], [[skip]], [[smacker]], [[sonny]], [[sonny boy]], [[spondulics]], [[spring]], [[springbok]], [[stag]], [[stallion]], [[start]], [[start aside]], [[start up]], [[steeplechase]], [[steer]], [[stem the tide]], [[stot]], [[stress]], [[strive against]], [[struggle against]], [[stud]], [[studhorse]], [[sugar]], [[take on]], [[tamp]], [[the needful]], [[throw off]], [[thrust]], [[tin]], [[tom]], [[tom turkey]], [[tomcat]], [[top cow]], [[top horse]], [[tote]], [[tour jete]], [[transport]], [[traverse]], [[trestle]], [[trestle and table]], [[trestle board]], [[trestle table]], [[trestlework]], [[trestling]], [[triturate]], [[tup]], [[turkey gobbler]], [[turkey-cock]], [[unhorse]], [[unplace]], [[unsaddle]], [[unseat]], [[updive]], [[upleap]], [[uproot]], [[upspring]], [[vault]], [[vie with]], [[wampum]], [[wether]], [[whelp]], [[wildebeest]], [[withstand]], [[workhorse]], [[young man]], [[youth]], [[Beau Brummel]], [[Belgian hare]], [[Cape elk]], [[Highland fling]], [[Virginia deer]], [[and jump]], [[antagonize]], [[antelope]], [[assault]], [[battle]], [[bear]], [[bear upon]], [[beat against]], [[beat up against]], [[billy]], [[billy goat]], [[bloke]], [[blood]], [[blunt]], [[boar]], [[bone]], [[boodle]], [[boost]], [[bounce]], [[bound]], [[boy]], [[brass]], [[bray]], [[bread]], [[breast the wave]], [[broad jump]], [[bub]], [[bubba]], [[bubbly-jock]], [[buck off]], [[buckjump]], [[bucks]], [[bud]], [[buddy]], [[buffet]], [[buffet the waves]], [[bull]], [[bulldoze]], [[bullock]], [[bump]], [[bump against]], [[bunny]], [[bunt]], [[butt]], [[butt against]], [[cabbage]], [[camel]], [[camelopard]], [[capriole]], [[caribou]], [[chanticleer]], [[chap]], [[chips]], [[clear]], [[close with]], [[clotheshorse]], [[cock]], [[cockerel]], [[colt]], [[combat]], [[comminute]], [[compete with]], [[contend against]], [[contest]], [[contriturate]], [[convey]], [[cottontail]], [[coxcomb]], [[cram]], [[crowd]], [[crush]], [[cub]], [[curvet]], [[dandy]], [[deer]], [[deerlet]], [[demivolt]], [[depose]], [[deracinate]], [[dig]], [[dinero]], [[dislodge]], [[dismount]], [[dispute]], [[doe]], [[doeling]], [[dog]], [[dough]], [[drake]], [[drive]], [[dromedary]], [[dude]], [[duel]], [[eland]], [[elbow]], 
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===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|/bʌk/}} {{SAMPA|/bVk/}}
* {{rhymes|ʌk}}

===Etymology 1===
{{etyl|enm}} {{term|buc#Etymology 2|buc}}, from {{etyl|ang}} {{term|bucca}} 'he-goat', from {{proto|Germanic}} *''bukkon'' (compare {{etyl|de|-}} {{term|Bock|lang=de}}), from Pre-Germanic *''bhug̑nó'', from {{proto|Indo-European}} *''bhug̑os'' 'ram' (compare {{etyl|sq|-}} {{term|buzë}}, {{etyl|xcl|-}} {{term|բուծ|tr=buc||sucking lamb|lang=xcl}}, {{etyl|fa|-}} {{term|بز|tr=boz||goat|lang=fa}}, {{etyl|sa|-}} {{term|बुख|tr=bukha|lang=sa}}).

===Etymology 2===
From {{etyl|gml}} {{term|bucken||to bend|lang=gml}} or {{etyl|dum}} {{term|bucken|lang=dum}}, {{term|bocken||to bend|lang=dum}}, intensive forms of {{etyl|osx}} {{term|bugan|būgan|lang=osx}} and {{etyl|odt}} *{{term||būgan|to bend, bow|lang=odt}}, from {{proto|Germanic|būganan|to bend|lang=en}}, from {{proto|Indo-European|bhūgh-|to bend|lang=en}}. Cognate with {{etyl|de|-}} {{term|bücken||to bend, stoop|lang=de}}, {{etyl|da|-}} {{term|bukke||to buck|lang=da}}, {{etyl|sv|-}} {{term|bocka||to bend, buck, bow|lang=sv}}. In fluenced in some senses by {{term|buck||male goat|lang=en}}. See above.

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|male deer}} [[stag]]
* {{sense|male goat}} [[billygoat]], [[billy]], [[buckling]], [[buck-goat]], [[he-goat]]
* {{sense|male ferret}} [[hob]], [[hob-ferret]]
* {{sense|ram}} [[ram]], [[tup]]
* {{sense|slang: dollar}} [[bill]], [[bone]], [[clam]], [[cucumber]], [[dead president]], [[greenback]], [[note]], [[one-spot]], [[paper]], [[simoleon]], [[single]], [[smackeroo]]
* {{sense|item that indicates dealer in poker}} [[button]], dealer button

====Derived terms====
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* [[buckskin]]
* [[crossbuck]]
* [[young buck]]
* [[pass the buck]], [[buck-passing]], [[the buck stops here]]
* [[sawbuck]] (not descended from ''buck'', but clearly influenced by)
* [[buck naked]] (origin uncertain)
* [[bucker]]
* [[buck up]]
* [[buck for]]
* [[bucking bronco]]
* [[buck the trend]]
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====See also====
* [[doe]], [[doeling]], [[ewe]], [[gill]], [[jill]], [[nanny]], [[nanny-goat]], [[she-goat]]