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as in dude
a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance
a vain buck who spends an hour before the bathroom mirror every morning
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as in money
bucks plural
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
hoping to win some major bucks at the slot machines
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as in to resist
to refuse to give in to
bucked the trend to outdo everyone else and just wore the same clothes they had in previous years
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as in to hand
to shift possession of (something) from one person to another
buck each box to the next person in line, and the last person will stack them in the storeroom
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Recent Examples of buck
Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
Go ahead, escape the cold and spend a few hundred bucks to stay with your closest thousand strangers for a party on the sea.
—Molly Higgins, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
Democratic voters hope to buck statewide trends again in 2024.
—Christina Elizabeth Dando, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Overall, the Manitoba, Canada, buck scores 226 7/8 inches.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
Go ahead, escape the cold and spend a few hundred bucks to stay with your closest thousand strangers for a party on the sea.
—Molly Higgins, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
The burning question is whether Trump will buck his own pattern and stick to his campaign’s message.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
Democratic voters hope to buck statewide trends again in 2024.
—Christina Elizabeth Dando, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for buck
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There’s a new promo picture going around showing a Dusty Milligan with facial hair (see: above) — and listen, not to besmirch his infinity-pool jawline, but the dude looks so much better with that scruff.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Name Mark Bryan Best known for Lead-guitarist, Hootie & the Blowfish Current city Denver Really want to be in Denver, rocking Fiddler’s Green on tour with my dudes.Liza Lentini, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2024
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The guys had so many good words to support me from the first day.Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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Not necessarily as the guy who’s getting the ball, but boxing out, being in the right spot.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Governor Newsom has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its retail theft taskforce, with the California Highway Patrol making thousands of arrests, but when asked about how many thieves have actually been prosecuted, the state doesn’t have the answers.Todd Spitzer, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
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The district is losing tens of millions of dollars a year in state funding as fewer children enroll in Denver schools.Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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Even if Vice President Kamala Harris had won, much of that money would have continued to flow.CNN.com, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Republicans have even spent some money attacking the Libertarian candidate, Donald Rainwater, in recent weeks.Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
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If the court doesn’t grant them that injunction, NASCAR is ready to yank those Charters and let the team’s race as open entries.Greg Engle, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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This noted, what Mother is brilliant at is showing us the rug being yanked from under her feet, again and again, in terse, breathless prose—sometimes girlishly purple, at others brusque with the idioms of the era.Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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California’s choice to resist potential policies that are threatening to its citizens is very necessary.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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However, Buffett has apparently resisted any temptation to influence the race.Greg McKenna, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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Optimistically, handing influence over this conference to the UAE, and now Azerbaijan—states whose interests are, in many ways, opposed to its aim—means that leaders who depend on fossil fuels must face the costs of burning them.Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Seeing those pills be made and being able to hand them out onstage at Defcon in Las Vegas.Jorge Just, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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Guests Reba McEntire and her beau, actor Rex Linn, appeared in costume too.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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And though Kermit should definitely play Edward, romantic interest to Elinor (and brother-in-law, yes, weird, but also rife for comedy), for Marianne’s beau, Colonel Brandon, getting another human actor would probably be best.Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Buck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buck. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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