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Meaning of buck up

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buck

Pronunciation:/bʌk/

noun

Definitions

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

  2. An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

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

  4. A fop or dandy.

verb

Definitions

  1. To copulate, as bucks and does.

noun

Definitions

  1. A type of African American traditional clogging.

noun

Definitions

  1. The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

  2. The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

  3. A hybrid plant.

  4. A stubborn person.

noun

Definitions

  1. A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

buck

Pronunciation:/bʌk/

verb

Definitions

  1. To bend; buckle.

  2. (of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.

  3. (of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

  4. To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

buck

Pronunciation:/bʌk/

noun

Definitions

  1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

  2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

verb

Definitions

  1. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

  2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

  3. To break up or pulverize, as ores.