bux

Noun

buck (plural bucks)

1. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.

   Synonyms:

   stag, billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat, hob, hob-ferret

2. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

   Synonyms:

   ram, tup

3. (Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
   • There are all kinds of game in the valley, and you are unlucky if you do not see a giraffe or an ostrich, or at least a herd of buck.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 265-266
4. The sound made by a chicken.
5. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
   • Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 60, in Vanity Fair
6. (UK, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
   • This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.1808, Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Connoisseur: The British Essayists, volume 32, page 93

   Synonyms:

   macaroni, popinjay, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike

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