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  1. noun The adult male of some animals, such as the deer, antelope, or rabbit.
  2. noun Antelope considered as a group: a herd of buck.
  3. noun A robust or high-spirited young man.
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  • Staying neutral when a suspect passed the buck was a trick in itself. —  Ledbetter, Suzann - North of Clever
  • Makes sense to combine technologies like solar with LED to get the greatest bang for the buck, which is exactly what Visible Light Solar is doing. —  TreeHugger
  • In addition to its state-record designation, the buck is the fourth-largest measured by Pope and Young Club scorers nationwide during the past two years, Hisey said. —  News
  • Continued questions about the buck were at times overwhelming, he said. —  News
  • When Kent picked me up, I showed him the video, and he confirmed that this buck was the big boy in the area.
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deer ·  stag ·  goat ·  boar ·  antelope ·  ox ·  rabbit ·  bull ·  moose ·  elephant ·  lion ·  fox

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buck:   bucks ·  bucked ·  bucking
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  1. Middle English bukke, from Old English buc, male deer, and bucca, male goat.
  2. Alteration (influenced by buck1) of Dutch bok, male goat, trestle, from Middle Dutch boc.
  3. Short for buckskin (from its use in trade).
  4. Short for buckhorn knife (from its use as a marker in poker).

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  1. from Middle English buk, bucke, bukke, a male deer; also, as orig., a he-goat; from Anglo-Saxon bucca, a he-goat (Anglo-Saxon gāt, later English goat, is a she-goat; cf. gāt-bucca, a he-goat; cf. Anglo-Saxon hæfer = Latin caper, a he-goat; Greek κάπρος, a boar); buc (rare), a male deer, = Old Saxon buk, a he-goat, = Fries, bok = Dutch bok = Old High German boch, Middle High German boc, German bock = Icelandic bukkr, also bokkr and bokki, = Swedish bock = Danish buk, he-goat, ram, buck (deer). Cf. Sanskrit bukka (Hindustani bok, boka), Zend būza, a goat. Hence (from Teutonic) F. bouc, Old French boc (whence ult. English butcher, q. v.) = Provencal boc = Catalan boc = Spanish dial. boque, Old Spanish buco = Italian becco (Middle Latin buccus) = Welsh bwch = Gaelic boc = Irish boc, poc = Cornish byk = Breton buch, bouch, a he-goat.
  2. from buck, n. Cf. Middle High German bocken, butt like a goat, also as G. bocken, smell like a goat, also buck. Cf. buck and buck.
  3. Prob. of dial. origin, not being recorded in literature until recently; prob., like the related buckle, of Low German origin: cf. Middle Dutch bucken, bocken, bend, Dutch bukken, bow, stoop, submit, yield, = Middle Low German bucken, Low German bukken = Middle High German bucken, bücken, German bücken, bend (cf. Middle High German bocken, sink down, transitive lay down), = Swedish bucka = Norwegian bukka = Danish bukke, bow; a secondary verb from Dutch buigen, German biegen, etc., = Anglo-Saxon būgan, English bow, bend. Buck is thus formally a secondary form of bow, dial. bug, bend (cf. buxom = bucksome, of the same origin), having as its freq. form buckle. In the 2d and 3d senses the verb might be referred to buck, a goat, as caper to L. caper, a goat. Cf. German bocken, nautical, heave up and down, pitch; of a horse, bend down the neck and fling out behind, usually referred to bock, a goat.
  4. from buck, v.
  5. = Scots bouk, from Middle English bouken, wash or steep in lye (not in Anglo-Saxon), = Middle Dutch buiken = Middle Low German buken, Low German büken = Middle High German būchen, beuchen, German bauchen = Swedish byka = Danish byge; cf. Bret, buga = Old French buer = Spanish *bugar = Italian bucare (Florio), wash in lye (later F. buée, Spanish bugada, Italian bucata (obsolete), bucato, washing in lye), from Middle Latin *bucare, prob. borrowed from Teutonic Cf. Gaelic Irish buac, dung used in bleaching, the liquor in which cloth is washed, bleached linen cloth, linen in an early stage of bleaching (cf. Irish buacar, cow-dung), from Gaelic Irish bo = Welsh buw. a cow, = English cow, q. v. But the connection of these Celtic forms with the Teutonic is doubtful.
  6. = Scots bouk: see buck, v.
  7. English dial., not found in Middle English; = Middle Dutch boken, booken = Middle Low German boken (Low German freq. bökern) = Middle High German bochen, puchen, German pochen = Swedish boka = Norwegian buka = Danish dial. boge, Danish pukke, beat, knock, strike, stamp, as ore, etc.; cf. Dutch poken, poke, = Middle English poken, pukken, English poke: see poke. The 3d and 4th senses touch upon those of buck and buck.
  8. English dial., prob. a variant of bouk, from Middle English bouk, the trunk, body, belly, from Anglo-Saxon būc, the belly: see bouk.
  9. Perhaps a particular use of buck; cf. similar uses of English horse, French cheval, and D. ezel, an ass, an easel, later English easel.
  10. Scots, from Middle English buk (in comp.), *bok, from Anglo-Saxon bōc, beech, commonly in deriv. bēce, English beech: see beech and book.
  11. An abbreviation of buckpot, q. v.
  12. apparently imitative; but cf. bock, boke, belch.
  13. Cf. Cornish buchar, sour milk.
 

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