BUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Buck mean? 

• BUCK (noun)
  The noun BUCK has 5 senses:

1. a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

2. a piece of paper money worth one dollar

3. United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)

4. a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

5. mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

  Familiarity information: BUCK used as a noun is common.

• BUCK (verb)
  The verb BUCK has 4 senses:

1. to strive with determination

2. resist

3. move quickly and violently

4. jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched

  Familiarity information: BUCK used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

buck; long horse; vaulting horse

Hypernyms ("buck" is a kind of...):

gymnastic horse; horse (a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

buck; clam; dollar; dollar bill; one dollar bill

Hypernyms ("buck" is a kind of...):

bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Buck; Pearl Buck; Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Instance hypernyms:

missionary; missioner (someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country)

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

buck; horse; sawbuck; sawhorse

Hypernyms ("buck" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buck"):

trestle (sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("buck" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buck"):

stag (adult male deer)

Derivation:

buck (jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched)

• BUCK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they buck    ... he / she / it bucks   
Past simple: bucked   
Past participle: bucked   
-ing form: bucking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To strive with determination

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

John is bucking for a promotion

Hypernyms (to "buck" is one way to...):

endeavor; endeavour; strive (attempt by employing effort)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Resist

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

buck; go against

Context example:

buck the trend

Hypernyms (to "buck" is one way to...):

oppose; react (act against or in opposition to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move quickly and violently

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

buck; charge; shoot; shoot down; tear

Context example:

He came charging into my office

Hypernyms (to "buck" is one way to...):

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it (move hurridly)

Verb group:

dart; dash; flash; scoot; scud; shoot (run or move very quickly or hastily)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "buck"):

rip (move precipitously or violently)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

buck; hitch; jerk

Context example:

the yung filly bucked

Hypernyms (to "buck" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

buck (mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope))

 Context examples 

That is Buck Whalley, who walked to Jerusalem in a long blue coat, top-boots, and buckskins.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They have half a buck from Northanger twice a year; and I dine with them whenever I can.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

What say you, woodman: wilt leave the bucks to loose a shaft at a nobler mark?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was nothing worth bucking about.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

John Messner clung with mittened hand to the bucking gee-pole and held the sled in the trail.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And if it does work, he added, "you'd get a big bang for your buck."

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling like a vicious horse, the sails filling, now on one tack, now on another, and the boom swinging to and fro till the mast groaned aloud under the strain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He felt better, and settled back slightly from the edge of the chair, holding tightly to its arms with his hands, as if it might get away from him and buck him to the floor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Dave he was called, and he ate and slept, or yawned between times, and took interest in nothing, not even when the Narwhal crossed Queen Charlotte Sound and rolled and pitched and bucked like a thing possessed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I had never before understood the popularity of my uncle in the sporting world, for the folk began to huzza as we passed with cries of Hurrah for Buck Tregellis!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)