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gunbuck

gunbuck verb: to hit someone in the head with a pistol; to pistol-whip.

Verb

gunbuck (third-person singular simple present gunbucks, present participle gunbucking, simple past and past participle gunbucked)

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) To hit someone in the head with a pistol; to pistol-whip.
    • I done him like Max done my man in Shottas / and gunbuck man with the strap2019 May 17, Digga D ft. Sav'O, “Imagine”
    • Couple seats down there’s three black akhis — on this Muslim gang ting — rocking grey prison tracksuits, one of them with a massive pink gash down the side of his face, raw, fresh from being gunbucked by armed police.2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 253

Forms of gunbuck

third-person singular presentgunbucks
present participlegunbucking
past participlegunbucked
pastgunbucked

Origin of gunbuck

Compound of gun + buck.

Questions about gunbuck

What does gunbuck mean?
Gunbuck means to hit someone in the head with a pistol; to pistol-whip.
What part of speech is gunbuck?
Gunbuck is a verb.
What is the past tense of gunbuck?
The past tense of gunbuck is gunbucked.

Words near gunbuck in the dictionary

  1. gunboating
  2. gunboats
  3. Gunbower
  4. gunbright
  5. gunbroke
  6. gunbuck
  7. gunbucked
  8. gunbucking
  9. gunbucks
  10. gunbuilder
  11. gunbuilders

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