Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The plunging and leaping of horses and mules addicted to bucking. See
buck , intransitive verb, 3.
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Examples
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What the Irish were doing in commercial, unregulated dance clubs is buck-jumping a dance associated with Irish sailors and black slaves in America.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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And every time they would let the hearse go to the cemetery, they would strike that number up, and I'm talking about everybody would just start buck-jumping hard, like hard - ladies, you know, chest be shaking like basketballs.
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When we were on plain ground and in full gallop we heaved to and fro as if in a rolling sea, and when going fast it was like a perpetual succession of buck-jumping, especially over the caldeiroês, lines of mud like a corduroy across the road.
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Outside on the flight line, they saw more of their number buck-jumping the Piper Cubs on landing and struggling with the ignominy of not being able to master the little airplane.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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Outside on the flight line, they saw more of their number buck-jumping the Piper Cubs on landing and struggling with the ignominy of not being able to master the little airplane.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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Outside on the flight line, they saw more of their number buck-jumping the Piper Cubs on landing and struggling with the ignominy of not being able to master the little airplane.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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Outside on the flight line, they saw more of their number buck-jumping the Piper Cubs on landing and struggling with the ignominy of not being able to master the little airplane.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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Our host, as we were driving round, took the opportunity for giving us a short, successful exhibition of buck-jumping with his steed, whether willingly or not, neither he nor history mentions.
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Our troubles are not over, for on the next upward grade the old game of rearing, backing, and futile attempts at buck-jumping, begins again.
Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings
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On the other hand, he had not foreseen in all detail what could happen once the thing was in operation, because the _Queen's_ sudden buck-jumping act had surprised him and knocked him out.
The Winds of Time James H. Schmitz 1946
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