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'Buck' may refer to any of the following:

★ Bucking by a horse, when the animal raises his hind end and kicks out with both hind legs.

★ The male of various species of animal, including:

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★ some species of deer — see also blackbuck, Buckskin (leather)

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★ Buck Fever is the name given to the feeling a novice hunter gets. This meaning is also used as the title of Estradasphere's second album.

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★ rabbits

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★ squirrels

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★ tyrannosaurus rex (the term buck was first used for a male ''tyrannosaurus rex'' in the ''Jurassic Park'' series and is currently gaining popularity)

★ A slang term for:

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★ African antelope

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★ a human male

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★ a sexually adventurous boy

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★ a dollar or similar national currencies (particularly in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and United States)

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★ 1 million dollars in Wall Street traders parlance

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★ a repetition of an old joke, story, or fact, especially by email

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★ a chicken (bucker), from the sound a chicken makes

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★ a slight punch in the arm

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★ an aboriginal male

★ A marker or button that indicates the dealer in the card game Poker

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★ 'Pass the Buck' and 'The Buck Stops Here' also both refer to the Poker marker

★ Buck, the main character in The Call of the Wild

★ Buck (band)

★ A buck converter is a type of electronics power supply

★ Buck Euchre is a card game

★ To 'buck the trend' is to be an exception to a rule

★ A popular term in America for an uncle. "Uncle Buck" after the Hollywood hit starring John Candy.

★ The Beatty Buck was a very large white-tailed deer shot with a compound bow

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People

Real

Fictional

Places and geographical features

People

Real

★ Buck Angel is a female to male, pre-op transsexual porn star.

★ Buck Henry American actor, writer and director

★ Buck Owens American singer and guitarist

★ Carrie Buck eugenics

★ David Buck British actor

★ Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser

★ Dudley Buck, U.S. composer (1839-1909)

★ Frank Buck, an animal collector

★ Frank Buck, a Tennessee politician

★ Jack Buck, St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame broadcaster

★ James Buchanan the fifteenth President of the United States was nicknamed Buck

★ John Buck (born 1980), an American baseball player

★ John E. Buck (born 1946), an American sculptor and printmaker

★ John R. Buck (1835-1917), a United States congressman

★ Lynn "Buck" Compton platoon leader of Easy Company (Band of Brothers)

★ Pearl S. Buck, American novelist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature

★ Peter Buck, guitarist and co-founder of R.E.M.

★ Robert N. "Rob" Buck, was a north American guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of 10,000 Maniacs

★ Young Buck, an American rapper

Fictional

★ Buck is the name of a main character in the Video Game 187 Ride or Die'

★ Buck Grangerford is the name of Huck Finn's friend

★ Buck is the name of the briard owned by the Bundys on Married... with Children.

★ Buck is also the name of a character in the film Kill Bill: Vol. 1

★ Buck Cannon is the brother of 'Big' John Cannon in The High Chaparral

★ Buck Rogers is a science fiction hero from the 1930s and 1970s.

★ Buck (From Dusk Till Dawn) is a character from the film, .

★ Buck Cluck is the father of the film version of Chicken Little

★ Cameron "Buck" Williams is a character in the Left Behind series

★ Frank Buck, American big game hunter and general hero in colonial Malaysia, played by Bruce Boxleitner in TV action series Bring 'm Back Alive, loosely based on the above real character

★ General Buck Turgidson A strategic bombing expert in the film played by George C. Scott

Places and geographical features

★ Buck, East Drumore, Lancaster, PA, USA

★ Buck Hill Farm Covered Bridge

★ Buck Hill Cone

★ Buck Hill Falls

★ Buck, Luzerne, PA, USA

★ Buck, Pentraeth, Isle of Anglesey, UK

★ Buck, Uninc Summers County, WV, USA

★ Buck, Uninc Carroll County, VA, USA

★ Buck, Uninc Wilkes County, NC, USA