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bucking out

bucking out is the present participle and gerund of buck out.

Meaning of buck out

Verb

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

  1. (dated, idiomatic, slang, transitive) To murder (someone).
  2. (dated, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To die.

Questions about bucking out

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

Words near bucking out in the dictionary

  1. bucking bronco
  2. bucking broncos
  3. bucking down
  4. bucking for
  5. bucking in
  6. bucking out
  7. bucking the tide
  8. bucking the tiger
  9. bucking the trend
  10. bucking up
  11. bucking up one's ideas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bucking out (page history and authors); buck out (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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