buck

Definitions

• A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
• (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
• A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
• (British) A fop or dandy.
• (US) A black or Native American man.
• (US) A dollar (one hundred cents).
• (South Africa) A rand (currency unit).
• (by extension) Money.
• (US) One hundred.
• (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
• (US) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
• (UK) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See :Mill_machinery#Windmill_Windmill machinery.
• (finance) One million dollars.
• (informal) A euro.
• A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
• a leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting
• A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See .
• (AAVE)
• type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.