buck
verb/bʌk/
/bʌk/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they buck | /bʌk/ /bʌk/ |
| he / she / it bucks | /bʌks/ /bʌks/ |
| past simple bucked | /bʌkt/ /bʌkt/ |
| past participle bucked | /bʌkt/ /bʌkt/ |
| -ing form bucking | /ˈbʌkɪŋ/ /ˈbʌkɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (of a horse) to jump with the two back feet or all four feet off the ground
- The horse bucked wildly.
- [intransitive] to move up and down suddenly or in a way that lacks control
- The boat bucked and heaved beneath them.
- The shotgun bucked in his hands.
- [transitive] buck something (informal) to resist or oppose something
- One or two companies have managed to buck the trend of the recession.
- He admired her willingness to buck the system (= oppose authority or rules).
- The President is unlikely to buck pressure from the public.
Word Originverb Old English, partly from buc ‘male deer’ (of Germanic origin, related to Dutch bok and German Bock); reinforced by bucca ‘male goat’, of the same ultimate origin.
Idioms
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- (British English, informal) to start behaving in a more acceptable way, so that work gets done better, etc.
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