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Definition or meaning of the English word Buck
A male Indian or negro. (n.). Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching; or in which clothes are washed. (n.). To throw by bucking. See Buck. (v. t.). 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. (v. i.). To copulate; as bucks and does. (v. i.). A gay; dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. (n.). The male of deer; especially fallow deer and antelopes; or of goats; sheep; hares; and rabbits. (n.). To break up or pulverize; as ores. (v. t.). To wash clothesin lye or suds; or; in later usage; by beating them on stones in running water. (v. t.). The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. (n.). 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. (v. t.). To soak; steep; or boil; in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. (v. t.). A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. (n.).
Buck Related Proverbs
The buck stops here. - The meaning of this proverb is I’m the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can’t pass the buck to anyone else, President Harry S. Truman kept a sign on his desk that read, The buck stops here.
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