Word: buck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dialectal buck ("to give in, yield"; also bug (“to bend”)), from Middle Low German bucken (“to bend”) or Middle Dutch bucken, bocken (“to bend”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *bukkōn (“to bend, bend repeatedly”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkōną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugʰ-, *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”) + Proto-Germanic *-(u)kōną. Cognate with Old Frisian bukkia (“to bend”). Influenced in some senses by buck “male goat” (see above). Sense “to meet, to encounter” is a semantic loan from Jamaican Creole buck. Compare bow and elbow. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/, /ˈbʊk/, /ˈbɜk/, /ˈbäk/, /ˈbɐ̞k/ 1. To bend; buckle. Labels: intransitive 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. Labels: intransitive Example: 1849, Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy, William Carron, Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, 2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121, At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp. 3. To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking. Labels: transitive Example: The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. 4. To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly. Labels: broadly, intransitive Example: The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution. 5. To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner. Labels: broadly, intransitive Example: The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely. 6. 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. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The plane bucked a strong headwind. Example: Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees. 7. 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. Labels: transitive 8. To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion. Labels: US, slang 9. To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape. 10. To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood. 11. To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. 12. To fuck. Labels: Ireland, euphemistic, humorous Example: Well he yoked the ass up to the cart. And then the holy ructions it did start. Well he bucked it in the air and he bucked it all around. Till he smashed the buckin' cart upon the ground. Example: Thatch had come down the stairs and chimed in: "Isn't he an awful buckin' eejit?" 13. To meet, to encounter, to come across. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: If I buck a paigon, I will disappoint his mum Example: I go mad when I buck me a opper, chest and back and I fucked up his posture