Buck

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Buck may refer to:

People:

Places:

Fictional characters:

Ships

  • USS Buck, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Films

Other uses:

  • Bucking, a movement by a horse when the animal kicks out with both hind legs
  • Buck is a colloquialism for a dollar or similar currency in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Africa and the United States
  • Bang for the buck, an idiom meaning the worth of one's money or exertion
  • Male deer and goats are referred to as bucks (larger species of male deer such as elk or moose are called bulls)
  • A Buck converter is an electronic circuit which performs DC to DC stepdown conversion
  • A derogatory term (primarily 19th C) for an African American male, the female counterpart being Wench.
  • A term used to describe the krump dance style.
  • The body of a Post mill

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