Buck

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Buck may refer to any of the following:

• Bucking by a horse, when the animal raises his hind end and kicks out with both hind legs.
• The male of various species of animal, including:
  • some species of deer — see also blackbuck, Buckskin (leather)
  • rabbits
  • squirrels
  • Tyrannosaurus rex (the term buck was first used for a male Tyrannosaurus rex in the Jurassic Park series and is currently gaining popularity)
• A slang term for:
  • African Antelope
  • a human male (usually a sexually adventurous 'boy')
  • a dollar or similar national currencies (particularly in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and United States)
  • a repetition of an old joke, story, or fact, especially by email
  • a chicken (bucker), from the sound a chicken makes
  • a one-hit shotgun blast to the chest
  • a slight punch in the arm
• A marker or button that indicates the dealer in the card game Poker
• Buck, the main character in The Call of the Wild
• Buck (band)
• A buck converter is a type of electronics power supply.
• Buck is a card game.

[edit] People

[edit] Real

• Buck Freeman
• Carrie Buck eugenics
• Dudley Buck, U.S. composer (1839-1909)
• Frank Buck, an animal collector
• Frank Buck, a Tennessee politician
• James Buchanan the fifteenth President of the United States was nicknamed Buck
• Pearl S. Buck, American novelist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser
• Jack Buck, St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame broadcaster

[edit] Fictional

• Buck is the name of a main charachter in the Video Game 187 Ride or Die
• Buck is the name of Huck Finn's friend.
• Buck is the name of the briard owned by the Bundy's on Married... with Children.
• Buck is also the name of a hospital orderly in the film Kill Bill.
• Buck is also greeting in the West of Ireland to a fellow male eg. "well buck"
• Buck Rogers is a science fiction hero from the 1930s and 1970s.
• Cameron "Buck" Williams is a character in the Left Behind series
• Frank Buck, American big game hunter and general hero in colonial Malaysia, played by Bruce Boxleitner in TV action series Bring 'm Back Alive, loosely based on the above real character

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