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buckles to

buckles to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of buckle to.

Meaning of buckle to

Verb

buckle to (third-person singular simple present buckles to, present participle buckling to, simple past and past participle buckled to)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, intransitive) Synonym of buckle down (“to apply oneself to study, or a task or work; to focus on or take a serious attitude towards something; to put forth the needed effort”).
    • Then the sergeant let us out, and introducing us to a pile of wood and saws and axes, informed us that when this had been cut up into firewood we should get our breakfast. He sat at the door of his kitchen watching, and seeing there was nothing else for it we buckled to and soon had the job done...1929, D[onald] J[ohn] Munro, “Nemesis”, in The Roaring Forties and After, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., →OCLC, page 38
    Synonyms:
    buckle down

Questions about buckles to

What is buckles to the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Buckles to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of buckle to.

Words near buckles to in the dictionary

  1. bucklers
  2. Bucklers Hard
  3. buckles
  4. buckles down
  5. buckles in
  6. buckles to
  7. buckles under
  8. buckles up
  9. bucklest
  10. buckleth
  11. Bucklew

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