Buck

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
2. isim An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
3. isim An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.

   “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.”

4. isim The sound made by a chicken.
5. isim A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

   “Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]”

6. isim A fop or dandy.

   “This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.”

7. isim A black or Native American man.

   “As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.”

8. isim An Aboriginal man.

   “‘A couple of Old Men wanted that young lubra and they’ve spurred on the bucks to chase Possum and cut his liver out.’”

9. isim Lowest rank; a private.
10. isim A dollar (one hundred cents).

    “Can I borrow five bucks?”

11. isim A rand (currency unit).
12. isim A sixpence.

    “three and a buck”

13. isim A euro.

    “Those fools are all probably sitting outside the pork store, recalling the incident about losing a thousand bucks with the fake Gajas, and chewing on their soggy stogies.”

14. isim Money.

    “Corporations will do anything to make a buck.”

15. isim One million dollars.
16. isim One hundred.

    “The police caught me driving a buck forty [140 miles per hour] on the freeway.”

17. isim Clipping of buckshot.

    “He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.”

18. isim The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
19. isim A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
20. isim A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
21. fiil To copulate, as bucks and does.
22. fiil To bend; buckle.
23. fiil 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.
24. fiil To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

    “The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.”

25. fiil To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

    “The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution.”

26. fiil To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

    “The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.”

27. fiil To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.

    “The plane bucked a strong headwind.”

28. fiil To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of 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.
29. fiil To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
30. fiil To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.