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bucked up to

bucked up to is the simple past and past participle of buck up to.

Meaning of buck up to

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To rebel against (someone or something); to stand up to or struggle against (someone or something).

Questions about bucked up to

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

Words near bucked up to in the dictionary

  1. bucked the tide
  2. bucked the tiger
  3. bucked the trend
  4. bucked up
  5. bucked up one's ideas
  6. bucked up to
  7. buckeen
  8. buckeens
  9. Buckelew
  10. Buckelews
  11. Buckenbowra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bucked up to (page history and authors); buck up to (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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