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Bounce is a related term of buck.


As verbs the difference between bounce and buck

is that bounce is to change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle while buck is .

As a noun bounce

is a change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.

bounce

English

(wikipedia bounce)

Verb

(bounc)
  • To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
  • The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
  • To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
  • He bounces nervously on his chair.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.}}
  • To cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
  • He bounced the child on his knee.
  • To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
  • She bounced into the room.
  • To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
  • We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced .
  • (informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
  • He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
  • (slang) To leave.
  • Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce .
  • (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
  • (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular English) (sometimes employing the preposition with ) To have sexual intercourse.
  • (air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
  • The squadron was bounced north of the town.
  • (electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset
  • See if it helps to bounce the router.
  • (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
  • What’s your new email address – the old one bounces .
    The girl in the bar told me her address is thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address bounced back to me.
  • (aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
  • The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
  • (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
  • (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Out bounced the mastiff.
  • (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
  • Synonyms

    * (change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) bounce back, rebound * (move quickly up and down) bob

    Derived terms

    * bounceable * bounce back, bounceback * bouncedown * bouncer * bounce rate * bouncing * bouncy * debounce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 9, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , passage=Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.}}
  • A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
  • An email return with any error.
  • The sack, licensing.
  • A bang, boom.
  • * 1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
  • I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
  • A drink based on brandy(w).
  • * , chapter=6
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
  • A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
  • * Dryden
  • The bounce burst open the door.
  • Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
  • (Johnson)
    (De Quincey)
  • Scyllium catulus , a European dogfish.
  • A genre of New Orleans music.
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) Drugs.
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) Swagger.
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) A 'good' beat.
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) A talent for leaping.
  • Synonyms

    * (change of direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) rebound * (movement up and down) bob, bobbing (repeated), bouncing (repeated) * (talent for leaping) ups, mad ups

    Derived terms

    * bouncy * on the bounce English ergative verbs

    buck

    English

    (wikipedia buck)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (buc), bucke, bukke, from (etyl) buc, bucc, ). Sense 6 is from mid 19th century, but of unknown origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
  • (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
  • A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
  • (British, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
  • * 1808 , (editor), The Connoisseur'', ''The British Essayists , Volume 32, page 93,
  • This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck .
  • * 1825 , , I Zingari'', ''The English in Italy , Volume II, page 153,
  • The Captain was then a buck and dandy, during the reign of those two successive dynasties, of the first rank of the second order ; the characteristic of which very respectable rank of fashionables I hold to be, that their spurs impinge upon the pavement oftener than upon the sides of a horse.
  • (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
  • (US, Australia, NZ, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
  • Can I borrow five bucks ?
  • (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
  • (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money
  • Corporations will do anything to make a buck
  • (US, slang) One hundred.
  • The police caught me driving a buck -forty on the freeway.
    That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter.
  • (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
  • pass the buck''; ''the buck stops here
  • (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill]], particularly in . See Wikipedia:[[w:Mill_machinery#Windmill_machinery, Windmill machinery.
  • (finance, jargon) One million dollars.
  • (informal) A euro
  • A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  • Synonyms
    * (male deer) stag * (male goat) billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat * (male ferret) hob, hob-ferret * (ram) ram, tup * bill, bone, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single, smackeroo * (item that indicates dealer in poker) button, dealer button
    Derived terms
    * buckskin * crossbuck * young buck * pass the buck, buck-passing, the buck stops here * sawbuck (not descended from buck , but clearly influenced by) * buck naked (origin uncertain)
    See also
    * doe, doeling, ewe, gill, jill, nanny, nanny-goat, she-goat

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To copulate, as bucks and does.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . See above. Compare (bow).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bend; buckle.
  • To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
  • * 1849 , Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy'', William Carron, ''Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy , 2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121,
  • At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp.
  • To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
  • * W. E. Norris
  • The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
  • (military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  • (by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
  • The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.
  • (by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
  • The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
  • (by extension) To overcome or shed (, an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
  • The plane bucked a strong headwind.
    Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
    John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.
  • (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: .
  • (forestry) To saw a tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
  • Derived terms
    * bucker * buck up * buck for * bucking bronco * buck the trend

    Etymology 3

    See beech.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) The beech tree.
  • (Johnson)
    Derived terms
    * buckmast, buck-mast

    Etymology 4

    Noun

  • lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed
  • The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
  • To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  • (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
  • (Webster 1913)