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"buck" Definition

  1. a gay or smart man; an unlicensed cabman; also a large marble used by schoolboys.
  2. sixpence. The word is rarely used by itself, but generally denotes the sixpence attached to shillings in reference to cost, as, “three and a BUCK,” three shillings and sixpence. Probably a corruption of Fyebuck.

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Position in the dictionary: 385 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: buckhorse, buckle, buckle-beggar, buckle-to, buckled, buckley, buckra, buckshish, budge, buff
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