Meaning

1 senses
  1. (US, slang)A private soldier keen ("bucking") for promotion; an ambitious private.

More definitions
  • an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines

Forms

plural: buck privates
Singularbuck private
Pluralbuck privates

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Synonyms

2 synonyms
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Word family

1 related words

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