(buk) noun
1. The male of certain animals, as of antelopes, deer, goats, rabbits, and rats.
2. A dashing fellow; a young blood.
3. An adult male Negro or Indian.
—v.i.
1. To leap upward suddenly and come down with the legs stiff, as a horse or pack-animal, in an attempt to dislodge rider or burden.
2. U.S. Colloq. To resist stubbornly; object.
3. U.S. Colloq. To move with jerks and jolts: said of vehicles.
4. To provide resistance against which a rivet may be driven or some other pounding or pushing work done.
—v.t.
5. To throw (a rider) by bucking.
6. U.S. Colloq. To butt with the head.
7. U.S. Colloq. To resist stubbornly; oppose.
8. To provide resistance for pounding or pushing (a rivet, etc.).
9. In football, to charge into (the opponent's line) with the ball.
—to buck up Colloq. To encourage or become encouraged. [Fusion of OE buc he-goat and bucca male deer]

(buk) noun
1. A sawhorse.
2. A padded frame in the shape of a sawhorse, used by gymnasts. [<Du. zaagbok sawbuck]

(buk) noun
1. A buckskin, formerly taken as a standard of value by North American Indians.
2. U.S. Slang A dollar.

(buk) noun Brit.
Suds or lye, for washing clothes; also, the clothes washed. [<v.]
—v.t. Dial. To wash or bleach in lye. [ME bouken. Akin to LG büken steep in lye]

(buk) noun
1. In card games, an object placed before a player as a reminder of his turn to deal.
2. In poker, a marker occasionally put into a jackpot, indicating that he who receives the buck must order another jackpot when it is his deal.
—to pass the buck U.S. Colloq. To shift responsibility, blame, etc., from oneself to someone else. [Origin uncertain]

(buk), Dudley,
1839–1909, U.S. composer.
—Pearl S.,
1892–1973, U.S. novelist.