BUCK

Buck

Buck is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Cindy Meehl. The film focuses on the life, career, and philosophy of the real-life "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman.

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buck

Noun

  1. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
  2. An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
  3. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
  4. A fop or dandy.
  5. A black or Native American man.
  6. A dollar (one hundred cents).
    Can I borrow five bucks?
  7. A rand (currency unit).
  8. One hundred.
    The police caught me driving a buck-forty on the freeway.
    That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter.
  9. An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  10. Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
    pass the buck; the buck stops here
  11. The body of a post mill, particularly in . See Wikipedia:.
  12. One million dollars.
  13. A euro
  14. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The beech tree.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed
  2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

Verb

  1. To copulate, as bucks and does.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To bend; buckle.
  2. To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
  3. To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
  4. To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of 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.
  5. To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
    The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.
  6. To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
    The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
  7. To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
    The plane bucked a strong headwind.
    Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
    John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.
  8. To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: .
  9. To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

Verb (etymology 3)

  1. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
  2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  3. To break up or pulverize, as ores.


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