Definition of Buck

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Definition of Buck

Buck

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

To break up or pulverize, as ores.

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

The beech tree.

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Buck Quotations

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller

The buck stops here!
Harry S. Truman

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy Buffett

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
Sam Walton

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
Gene Simmons

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Raymond Chandler

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
James Cash Penney

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
Tom Waits

Buck Translations

buck in German is Bock, bocken, Bock, Dollar
buck in Spanish is ciervo
buck in Swedish is hanne, bock

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