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buck

noun as in male animal

Strongest match

Strong match

verb as in resist, oppose

verb as in move with jerking motion

verb as in throw off, dislodge

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Sure, some topflight models can set you back thousands if you go for as many premium features as possible, but you can definitely get a decent cheap adjustable desk for no more than a couple hundred bucks.

This cheap ergonomic keyboard packs a major bang for its buck.

Mercenary CEOs know all too well that this is about the most bang you can get for your buck.

In particular, a recurrent “cold blob” has been observed in the ocean to the south of Greenland — a large region that is bucking the overall global warming trend and instead showing a marked cooling pattern.

That means whatever they’re doing—streaming a Netflix movie in ultrahigh definition, updating their operating system, watching endless hours of TikTok—they’re doing on your buck.

Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.

President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”

Jamming Netanyahu at the UN will buck him up among the right.

Some things have changed a lot since 1984 when the errant Father Buck wrote to his young love interest.

So often enough, those urchins are buck-naked and streaming wet.

G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.

We squatted in the long grass and buck-brush, listening, and a few seconds later heard a horse snort distinctly.

The buck had been passed, let the boys sitting on their backsides down on Earth handle it.

It was a huge buck, with wide-spreading antlers, rising out of the bushes where it stood.

The bread is made of wheat meal, but in some cottages consisted of thin cakes without leven, and made of buck-wheat.

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On this page you'll find 120 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to buck, such as: bull, and stag.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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