Buck
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbʌk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Buck is a noun meaning (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
Meaning
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
More Meanings
- (Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- The sound made by a chicken.
- 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, derogatory, obsolete) An Aboriginal man.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
Example Sentences
She got so she’d rather have a buck nigger than me!
This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.
But this buck claimed he was a big war chief with the Nawyecky Comanches.
There are all kinds of game in the valley, and you are unlucky if you do not see a giraffe or an ostrich, or at least a herd of buck.
Word Forms
- bucks
- bucking
- bucked
Synonyms for buck
Depending on context, synonyms include stag, billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, hob.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clam, horse, sawbuck, sawhorse, shoot, tear.
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