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

1. noun. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
2. noun. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
3. transitive verb. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
4. transitive verb. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
5. transitive verb. To break up or pulverize, as ores.
6. noun. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
7. noun. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
8. noun. A male Indian or negro.
9. intransitive verb. To copulate, as bucks and does.
10. intransitive 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.
11. transitive 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.
12. transitive verb. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
13. noun. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
14. noun. The beech tree.
15. noun. mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
16. noun. a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

    Synonyms: horse, sawbuck, sawhorse

17. noun. a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
18. noun. United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
19. noun. a piece of paper money worth one dollar

    Synonyms: clam, dollar

20. verb. jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched

    "the yung filly bucked"

    Synonyms: hitch, jerk

21. verb. move quickly and violently

    "The car tore down the street"

    "He came charging into my office"

    Synonyms: charge, shoot, tear

22. verb. resist

    "buck the trend"

23. verb. to strive with determination

    "John is bucking for a promotion"

Synonyms

horse, sawbuck, sawhorse, clam, dollar, hitch, jerk, charge, shoot, tear

Common word forms

bucks, bucked, bucker, bucking

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