Meaning

32 senses
  1. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.

    Bock, Rammler, Rüde

    саме́цsaméc

    mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

  2. (US)An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

  3. (Africa)An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.

  4. The sound made by a chicken.

  5. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

    Bock

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

  7. (US, slang)Lowest rank; a private.

  8. A unit of a particular currency

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

    Can I borrow five bucks?

    баксbaks, зелёныйzeljónyj, капу́стаkapústa

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

  10. (informal, rare)A euro.

  11. (Australia, South Africa, US, broadly, informal)Money.

    Corporations will do anything to make a buck.

    a piece of paper money worth one dollar

  12. One million dollars.

Examples

169 sentences
  1. That'll cost about three hundred bucks.

    Це коштуватиме приблизно триста баксів.

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  2. Could you lend me thirty bucks?

    Ви не могли би позичити мені тридцять доларів?

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  3. That'll cost three hundred bucks.

    Це коштуватиме триста баксів.

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  4. I paid about 50 bucks.

    Я заплатив приблизно п'ятдесят доларів.

    ruЯ заплатил около 50 долларов.

    deIch habe um die 50 Öcken gezahlt.

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  5. Can you spare a buck?

    Можеш мені позичити один долар?

    ruНе одолжишь доллар?

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
male deer, goat, etc.:
fop or dandy:
informal: dollar:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
male deer, goat, etc.:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English bukke. Doublet of puck (“billy goat”). From Middle English

Inherited from Middle English bukke. Doublet of puck (“billy goat”).

From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German būken.

From Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk, body, hull of a ship, fishtrap, container”), from Old English būc (“belly, bottle, jug, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Doublet of bucket.

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Forms

plural: bucks
Singularbuck
Pluralbucks

regular

Synonyms

78 synonyms
item that indicates dealer in poker:buttonA1dealer button
male deer:stag
male ferret:hobhob-ferret
Close in meaning

Word family

77 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • thirty bucks
  • a million bucks
  • million bucks

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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