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bucking for

bucking for is the present participle and gerund 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 bucking for

What is bucking for the present participle and gerund of?
Bucking for is the present participle and gerund of buck for.

Words near bucking for in the dictionary

  1. bucking bar
  2. bucking bars
  3. bucking bronco
  4. bucking broncos
  5. bucking down
  6. bucking for
  7. bucking in
  8. bucking out
  9. bucking the tide
  10. bucking the tiger
  11. bucking the trend

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bucking 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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