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   Buck

   /bək/

   

   noun

   • 1. the male of some horned animals, especially the fallow deer, roe deer, reindeer, and antelopes.
   • ▪ a male hare, rabbit, ferret, rat, or kangaroo.
   • 2. a vaulting horse.
   • 3. a vertical jump performed by a horse, with the head lowered, back arched, and back legs thrown out behind.
   • 4. a fashionable and typically high-spirited young man: archaic "the dashing young buck, driving his own equipage"
   • 5. a contemptuous term for a black man. dated, offensive
   • 6. Oxford shoes made of buckskin.

   verb

   • 1. (of a horse) to perform a buck: "he's got to get his head down to buck"
   • ▪ (of a vehicle) make sudden jerky movements: "the boat began to buck in the water"
   • 2. oppose or resist (something that seems oppressive or inevitable): "the shares bucked the market trend"

   adjective

   • 1. lowest of a particular rank: military slang US "a buck private"

   Word Origin Old English, partly from buc ‘male deer’ (of Germanic origin, related to Dutch bok and German Bock); reinforced by bucca ‘male goat’, of the same ultimate origin.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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