bucks

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Object: to give the Corps the best and steadiest personnel available, prevent young buckos from misusing M.P. authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

A foremast hand badgering the captain on his own poop deck; badgering Yankee Swope of the Golden Bough, whilst his two trusty buckos stood by inactive and gaping.

From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman

Therefore, the colonizations in the slums and the appointing of notorious buckos to positions where they would control the ballot boxes could be directed only against the Workingmen's League.

From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham

In the foc'sle he was more violent than any other in his denunciation of the buckos; on deck he cringed before them.

From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman

"Better advise your buckos to be careful how they handle them grate-bars," shouted Captain Wass.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman