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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

The buck stops here!
Harry S. Truman

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

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

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

Buck up or stay in the truck.
Sarah Palin

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

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
Dennis Weaver

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
Michael Stipe

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

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.
Ken Burns

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
Nat King Cole

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.
Sanjay Kumar

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.
Hilary Rosen

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.
George Strait

Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.
Gil Gerard

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

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
Juice Newton

No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.
Gil Gerard

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.
Dwight Yoakam

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
Gregory Harrison

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
Young Buck

L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.
Billy Eckstine

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.
Angela Lansbury

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.
Richard Roeper

People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on.
Gil Gerard

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.
Kathleen Blanco

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
Bob Anderson

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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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