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bucked for

bucked for is the simple past and past participle of buck for.

Meaning of buck for

Verb

buck for (third-person singular simple present bucks for, present participle bucking for, simple past and past participle bucked for)

  1. (US, colloquial, idiomatic) To strive for persistently; to try hard to obtain (a promotion, raise, etc.).

Questions about bucked for

What is bucked for the simple past and past participle of?
Bucked for is the simple past and past participle of buck for.

Words near bucked for in the dictionary

  1. buckdances
  2. buckdancing
  3. Buckden
  4. bucked
  5. bucked down
  6. bucked for
  7. bucked in
  8. bucked out
  9. bucked the tide
  10. bucked the tiger
  11. bucked the trend

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bucked for (page history and authors); buck for (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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