English Dictionary

buck

IPA（発音記号）

/bʌk/

名詞

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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.

日本語の意味

雄の鹿、雄のアンテロープ、雄の羊、雄のヤギ、雄のウサギ、雄の野兎など、動物の雄を指す総称。 / （米国英語）去勢されていない雄の羊、つまり雄羊を示す。

The buck crossed the meadow at dawn, its antlers silhouetted against the sky.

雄鹿が夜明けに草原を横切り、角が空にシルエットを作っていた。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

意味（3）

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 […]

意味（4）

(Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.

This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.

意味（5）

(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.

She got so she'd rather have a buck nigger than me!

意味（6）

(US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).

Can I borrow five bucks?

意味（7）

(South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).

意味（8）

(informal, rare) A euro.

Those fools are all probably sitting outside the pork store, recalling the incident about losing a thousand bucks with the fake Gajas, and chewing on their soggy stogies.

意味（9）

(by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.

Corporations will do anything to make a buck.

意味（10）

(finance) One million dollars.

意味（11）

(US, slang) One hundred.

The police caught me driving a buck forty [140 miles per hour] on the freeway.

意味（12）

Clipping of buckshot.

He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.

意味（13）

(UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.

意味（14）

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

意味（15）

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

意味（16）

A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.

Plans in hand, Frank first paid his friend Raniero a visit, and the artisan quickly went to work on a fortified wood buck that would serve as a form for the Griffith 600 Series, as the car was formally known and marketed by Griffith Motors.

意味（17）

(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.

意味（18）

(African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.

意味（19）

Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)

意味（20）

(dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.

bucks （ plural ）