buck
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
Noun 3 meanings
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
The sound made by a chicken.
Verb 4 meanings
To copulate, as bucks and does.
To bend; buckle.
To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bukke. Doublet of puck (“billy goat”). Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Native Americans and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748).
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BUCK at a glance
BUCK has 4 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (B 3 + U 1 + C 3 + K 5) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,885 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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