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buck

1. slang A dollar. Primarily heard in US. Could I borrow a buck to get something from the vending machine? I can't believe this thing costs 30 bucks! I'm sorry, I wish I could give you a bigger donation, but I only have 10 bucks on me right now.
2. slang Money in general. Primarily heard in US. You can't prioritize making a quick buck over the well-being of your employees. With so many things to do inside the theme park, you really get a lot of bang for your buck. Wow, their CEO has no morals whatsoever—all he cares about is making a buck.
3. slang One hundred (of something). Primarily heard in US. A: "I used a weigh a buck and a half in college." B: "Tom, you haven't been 150 pounds since you were in middle school." Cops nailed him for doing a buck twenty-five on the highway. The fine was a buck and a quarter? Sheesh, that ain't cheap, my friend.
4. Responsibility or culpability. Used especially in the phrases "pass the buck" and "the buck stops here/with (someone)." Politicians have two skills—making empty promises and passing the buck when they fail to deliver on them. You'll need to talk to Jed if you want things to change. The buck stops with him around here. This strike can't go on any longer, so the buck stops here—I will personally meet with the head of the union today.
5. offensive slang An extremely derogatory term for a male person of color, especially an African American or Native American.
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buck

1. n. a dollar. Gimme a buck for a bottle of wine, will you mister?
2. tv. to resist something. He enjoys bucking the system.
3. n. a buckskin (leather) shoe. (Usually plural.) Look at my new white bucks!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The gist of this disagreement was that Texans, with their larger ranches and seemingly endless supply of bucks, thought spike yearlings should be removed from the herd as soon as possible.
This all combines to give more hunters a crack at the buck of a lifetime each season.
Many hunters associate a buck's larger home range with increased age, but is this true?
While the small herd of antlerless deer browsed aimlessly under my stand, a giant buck appeared at the edge of the thicket just 30 yards away and intently stared in my direction.
DEC wildlife biologists are encouraged by a trend toward taking older bucks that emerged from the 2017 deer harvest: an estimated 57,494 adult bucks--53.3 percent of the total adult buck harvest--averaged 2.5 years or older, a record in total number and greatest percentage of older bucks in the harvest.
It has come a long way through the years, but still remains a customer favorite," said CJ Buck, CEO and chairman of Buck Knives.
Another reason that dairy goat keepers prefer to keep bucks and does separate is the buck smell.
Because the bucks aren't looking for ladies yet, you'll need a buck decoy in a non-threatening pose--feeding.
We are often asked, "Why did you name your center Pearl Buck?" Pearl Buck was not only a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, she was the first American woman awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Clancy is considered the originator of the techno- military genre but Nowlan did it first with 'Buck Rogers.' Nowlan's accurate scientific predictions and solid military action adventure stories exploded into the writing scene at the time graphic tales and movies needed new subjects.
The researchers, Richard Axel of Columbia University and Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, will share the nearly $1.4 million prize.
"HEY JOE," someone says, kind of low, like Jimi Hendrix, but shy, too--"Hey Joe Buck." Jon Voight, who is Joe Buck, is slouching toward a voice.
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