Dictionary Entry
buck
buck is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- 2noun
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- 3transitive verb
To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
- 4transitive verb
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- 5transitive verb
To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- 6noun
The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
- 7noun
A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
- 8noun
A male Indian or negro.
- 9intransitive verb
To copulate, as bucks and does.
- 10intransitive verb
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.
- 11transitive verb
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.
- 12transitive verb
To throw by bucking. See Buck. i., 2.
- 13noun
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- 14noun
The beech tree.
- 15noun
mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
- 16noun
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- 17noun
a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- 18noun
United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
- 19noun
a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- 20verb
jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
"the yung filly bucked"
- 21verb
move quickly and violently
"The car tore down the street"
"He came charging into my office"
- 22verb
resist
"buck the trend"
- 23verb
to strive with determination
"John is bucking for a promotion"
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