buck

buck1 [ bʌk ] noun count **

1. ) AMERICAN INFORMAL a dollar:

You can get the batteries for a few bucks at any drugstore.

2. ) bucks plural AMERICAN INFORMAL money:

More and more bucks are being spent to achieve exactly the same ends.

big bucks (=a lot of money): This guy makes serious money, I mean big bucks.

a ) make a buck or make a few bucks to make money:

Everyone's trying to think of ways to make a few bucks.

b ) make a fast/quick buck to make money quickly and often dishonestly:

These companies are just out to make a fast buck.

=> BANG 2

3. ) the male of some animals such as RABBITS or DEER

─ compare DOE

4. ) AMERICAN INFORMAL OLD-FASHIONED a young man

the buck stops here/with someone

used for saying who should accept the responsibility for something:

The buck stops with the players, not with the manager or anybody else.

pass the buck

to make someone else deal with something that you should take responsibility for:

He accused the lawyers of trying to pass the buck on the case.

buck

buck 2 [ bʌk ] verb intransitive

if an animal such as a horse bucks, it kicks its back legs in the air or jumps off the ground in an uncontrolled way

buck the trend/system SPOKEN

to succeed in doing something even though there is a general tendency for this not to happen:

The auto industry bucked the trend with a 5% increase in exports.

`buck for phrasal verb transitive AMERICAN

buck for something to try hard to get something, especially in your job:

I think she's bucking for a raise.

,buck `up phrasal verb intransitive or transitive

1. ) INFORMAL to try to make someone happier, or to become happier:

I took him out to lunch to try to buck him up.

2. ) buck up or buck your ideas up BRITISH SPOKEN used for telling someone to try harder