bucker

Example Sentences

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If the candidate’s history on the bench is any guide, he could enter the Senate bucking a system already chock-full of system buckers.

From Time • Sep. 25, 2017

The best buckers earn the best scores for their riders, but they’re also the most likely to toss a rider off.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2014

The experience of the trend buckers offers an obvious prescription for attracting U.S. investment in 1961: the open encouragement of private enterprise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henry said, “If you had drawn the buckers I drew, you would have been in the air so much you would have sprouted wings.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

These received the appellation of "orderly buckers" by their comrades, and were too lazy to walk post and perform a soldier's duty.

From A Soldier in the Philippines by Freeman, Needom N.