Word Finder - bucks

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A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.

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An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

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A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

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A fop or dandy.

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A black or Native American man.

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A dollar (one hundred cents).

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Can I borrow five bucks?

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A rand (currency unit).

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(by extension) Money.

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Corporations will do anything to make a buck.

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One hundred.

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That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter [125 pounds].

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An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.

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(in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.

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pass the buck

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The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.

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One million dollars.

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A euro.

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A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

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A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting

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A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See Street Rodder "Making a Wood Buck".

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To copulate, as bucks and does.

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To bend; buckle.

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(of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) 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.

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(of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

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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.

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(by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

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The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.

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(by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

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The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.

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(by extension) 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.

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John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.

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(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.

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To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

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To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter

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The beech tree.

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To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

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To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

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To break up or pulverize, as ores.

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A type of African American traditional clogging.

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Casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often white or a neutral colour.

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The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

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The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

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A hybrid plant.

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A stubborn person.

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A person paid to smuggle drugs.

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A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.

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A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.

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Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.

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A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.

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A kind of cotton-spinning machine.

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A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

She had big bucks and died when he was in prison.

The horns of the bucks are heavy, and have a peculiar forward curvature at the tips; the colour of the coat is red-fawn, with a broad brown band down the back.

It was a million bucks they were talking about.

Looks like you can buy one for about ten bucks unless some late bidder jumps in and kicks up the price.

But those things cost big bucks.

By the way, if you took my bet, you lost five bucks.

I owe you some bucks from selling them dishes we bought at last week's moving sale.

Better yet—sell it to her, for another three hundred bucks!

His wife is in the bucks, too.

I'll tell you; it's been years and millions of bucks.

As for Martha's father, Patsy's comments as recorded on one statement she grudgingly gave the authorities listed him as "some john I did for a couple of bucks drug money."

A DNA test would start around five hundred bucks.

Printed brochures, gratis from Myrtle Somebody whose brother-in-law was a printer, were placed about town by tiny Tonya, an eight-year-old Latina waif hired by Fred for five bucks.

I'd sue your ass and the county and everyone else in sight for a zillion bucks.

Good. That means she's got some bucks.

I'm content to give them fair value for their bucks and try my best to see that they enjoy themselves.

While the equipment didn't match what was displayed on the cover of current ski magazines, they looked surprisingly good for the twenty bucks Fred said he'd paid for them, with boots and poles part of the package.

You can spend three hundred bucks on a good one.

Why should I pay a hundred bucks an hour for some guy to tell me not to answer questions I don't mind answering in the first place?

That's what the guy in the alley said when he sold it to me for ten bucks.

Sooner or later you hit the guys with the bucks and some­body tosses you money so you'll go away.

You haven't had 50 bucks to your name in a year!

Or, they both think our friend here and his buddies the Wassermann twins are all a few bucks richer!

Hey, somebody ripped off the bucks and if you find who, I'm off the hook.

Dean took Thursday for five bucks, in absentia.

It was nearly a hundred bucks and that was just through last week!

Dean wondered if Jeff was not the saint she thought, not deceased, instead bopping along somewhere west of Kansas, with several million bucks in his pocket.

The boys were glad to earn 50 bucks and DeLeo was polite enough not to ask why a 74-year-old man was renting a one-way automobile.

If I had a couple of million bucks, I'd be staying in the swellest place I could find.

Easy enough to be a saint with a couple of million bucks in your back pocket.

I'll bet someone was really paying out the bucks.

In 1331 he retired to a country living (Wraysbury, Bucks), and devoted himself to writing the history of his own times.

Bucks and does live apart except during the pairingseason; and the doe produces one or two, and sometimes three fawns at a birth.

The East African gerenuk, or Waller's gazelle (Lithocranius walleri), of which two races have been named, is a very remarkable ruminant, distinguished not only by its exceedingly elongated neck and limbs, but also by the peculiar hooked form of the very massive horns of the bucks, the dense structure and straight profile of the skull, and the extreme slenderness of the lower jaw.

With the palla, or impala(A epyceros melampus), we reach an exclusively African genus, characterized by the lyrate horns of the bucks, the absence of lateral hoofs, and the presence of a pair of glands with black tufts of hair on the hind-feet.

More or less nearly related to the saiga is the chiru, Pantholops hodgsoni, of Tibet, characterized by the long upright black horns of the bucks, and the less convex nose, in which the nostrils open anteriorly instead of downwards.

Almost the only characters they possess in common are the short and spike-like horns of the bucks, which are ringed at the base, with smooth tips, and the large size of the face-gland, which opens by a circular aperture.

In some respects connecting the last group with the Cervicaprinae is the rhebok, or vaal-rhebok (Pelea capreolus), a grey antelope of the size of a roebuck, with small upright horns in the bucks recalling those of the last group, and small lateral hoofs, but no face-glands.

The duikers, or duikerboks (Cephalophus), of Africa, which range in size from a large hare to a fallow-deer, typify the subfamily Cephalophinae, characterized by the spike-like horns of the bucks, the elongated aperture of the face-glands, the naked muzzle, the relatively short tail, and the square-crowned upper molars; lateral hoofs being present.

The chalk occasionally becomes phosphatized, as at Taplow (Bucks) and Lewes (Sussex).

The horns of the old bucks are of great length and beauty, and characterized by their bold scimitar-like backward sweep and sharp front edge, interrupted at irregular intervals by knots or bosses.

In Bucks and Montgomery counties is a large sandstone area; traversing Chester county is the narrow Chester Valley with a limestone bottom, and in Lancaster county is the most extensive limestone plain.

A second antelope inhabiting the same country as the chiru is the goa (Gazella picticaudata), a member of the gazelle group characterized by the peculiar form of the horns of the bucks and certain features of coloration, whereby it is markedly distinguished from all its kindred save one or two other central Asian species.

The old males, however, live alone except in the rutting season, which occurs in October, when they join the herds, driving off the younger bucks, and engaging in fierce contests with each other, that often end fatally for one at least of the combatants.

On the 10th of March 1878 Lord Rosebery married Hannah, only child of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild, of Mentmore, Bucks.

The Essex and the Essex Union, the Surrey and the Surrey Union, the Old Berkeley, the West Kent, the Burstow, the Hertfordshire, the Crawley and Horsham, the Puckeridge, as regards foxhounds; the Berkhampstead, the Enfield Chase, Lord Rothschild's, the Surrey, the West Surrey and the Warnham, as regards staghounds - as well as the Bucks and Berks, which was substituted for the Royal Buckhounds - are within easy reach of the capital.

About 5684 a Baptist church was founded at Cold Spring, Bucks county, Pa., through the efforts of Thomas Dungan, an Irish Baptist minister who had spent some time in Rhode Island.

On the 30th of October 13 56 Wykeham was appointed during pleasure surveyor (supervisor) of the king's works in the castle of Windsor, for the same purposes as at Henley, with power to take workmen everywhere, except in the fee of the church or those employed in the king's works at Westminster, the Tower of Dartford, at the same wages as Robert of Bernham, probably Burnham, Bucks, who had been appointed in 1353, used to have, viz.

But in the eastern and southern counties the Chalk is covered by younger deposits of Tertiary age; the Pliocene Crags of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Lower London Tertiaries (London Clay, Woolwich and Reading Beds, &c.) of the London Basin comprising parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Bucks and Berks, and northern Kent.

They have heavily fringed necks and tufted tails; the bucks carry long sublyrate and heavily ringed horns, but the does are horn- - - less.