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bucky

/ˈbʌki/

bucky noun: a gun. Also the alternative form of Bucky.

Noun (1)

bucky (plural buckies)

  1. (UK, slang) A gun.
    • Like for a gun, you could say a gat but that's quite an old term. Most young people now would say stralley, a tool or a bucky.2011 October 21, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Bloomsbury Publishing

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bucky

Bucky

  1. A surname

Noun (2) capitalized: Bucky

Bucky (plural Buckies)

  1. (abbreviation, ellipsis, informal) Ellipsis of Potter-Bucky diaphragm.
    • The recipromatic Bucky differs from the manually cocked Bucky in that the grid travels in both directions across the table during the exposure.1960, Charles A. Jacobi, Donald E. Hagen, X-ray Technology, page 74

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bucky

Bucky

  1. A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Bucky

Bucky

  1. (alternative, slang) Alternative form of Buckie (“Buckfast Tonic Wine”).

Also used as

bucky is also the alternative form of Bucky.

bucky meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

bucky in Hindi

बकी

bucky in Tamil

பக்கி

bucky in Marathi

बकी

bucky in Urdu

بکی
More languagesFewer languages
bucky in Bengali
বকি
bucky in Telugu
బకీ
bucky in Malayalam
ബക്കി
bucky in Kannada
ಬಕ್ಕಿ, ಬಕಿ
bucky in Odia
ବକି
bucky in Nepali
बक्की

Forms of bucky

pluralbuckies
pluralBuckies

Origin of bucky

From buckshot.

From Potter-Bucky diaphragm.

Words formed from bucky

Phrases with bucky

Words that rhyme with bucky

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bucky

What does bucky mean?
Bucky means a gun.
What is bucky in Hindi?
Bucky in Hindi is बकी. See Bucky meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bucky?
Bucky can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bucky?
Bucky is pronounced /ˈbʌki/.
What is the plural of bucky?
The plural of bucky is buckies.

Words near bucky in the dictionary

  1. buckwheater
  2. buckwheaters
  3. buckwheatlike
  4. buckwheats
  5. buckwheaty
  6. bucky
  7. bucky bit
  8. bucky bits
  9. bucky onion
  10. bucky onions
  11. buckyball

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bucky (page history and authors); Bucky (page history and authors); bucky (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bucky (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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