• 1. the male of various animals including the goat, hare, kangaroo, rabbit, and reindeer
• 2. ( as modifier )
• 3. an antelope or deer of either sex
• 4. a young man
• 5. a robust spirited young man
• 6. a dandy; fop
• 7. the act of bucking
• 8. (of a horse or other animal) to jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
• 9. (of a horse, etc) to throw (its rider) by bucking
• 10. to resist or oppose obstinately
• 11. to cheer or encourage
• 12. (esp of a car) to move forward jerkily; jolt
• 13. to charge against...

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• 1. a dollar
• 2. a rand
• 3. See bang
• 4. C19: of obscure origin

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• 1. a type of vaulting horse
• 2. a stand for timber during sawing sawhorse
• 3. to cut (a felled or fallen tree) into lengths
• 4. C19: short for sawbuck

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• 1. a marker in the jackpot to remind the winner of some obligation when his turn comes to deal
• 2. C19: probably from buckhorn knife , placed before a player in poker to indicate that he was the next dealer

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• Buck Pearl S ( ydenstricker ) 1892 1973 F US WRITING: novelist Pearl S ( ydenstricker ). 1892--1973, US novelist, noted particularly for her novel of Chinese life The Good Earth (1931): Nobel prize for literature 1938

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