Buck vs Jack - What's the difference?
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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,
* 1825 , , I Zingari'', ''The English in Italy , Volume II,
(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
(US, Australia, NZ, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
(South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
(by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money
(US, slang) One hundred.
(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.
(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.
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 ,
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
* W. E. Norris
(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.
(by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
(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.
(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.
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.
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)
A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack.
A man or men in general.
A male animal.
A male ass.
(card games) The card ranking between the (ten) and (queen) of any suit, picturing a knave or prince on its face. In some card games has a value of eleven based on its rank, but in many card games has a value of ten like the ten'', ''queen'', and (king) cards. Also called a ''knave .
(archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
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, related to the mango tree.
A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
(sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
* (rfdate), Sir (Walter Scott)
(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
(colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
(nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
(nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially) British sailing warships; Union Jack.
(military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
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A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243.)
(slang) Money.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, page 133:
(slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
A common name for the freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
A large California rockfish.
Any marine fish or the species of the Carangidae family.
(obsolete, nautical) A sailor; a "jack tar".
(obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
# A device to pull off boots.
# A sawhorse or sawbuck.
# A machine for turning a spit; a smokejack.
# (mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
# A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine.
# A grating to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.
# A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
# A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
# A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
# A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
# A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
# In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; also called hopper.
# In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
# (nautical) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; also called jack crosstree.
Female ended electrical connector (see )
Electrical connector in a fixed position (see )
To use a jack.
To raise or increase.
(colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Contraction of carjacking
To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
(transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
* 1986 , in Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature , Volume 4, Sport Literature Association:
* 2004 , Wayne Stewart, Hitting Secrets of the Pros: Big League Sluggers Reveal the Tricks of Their Trade , McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 9780071418249,
* Jim McManus, quoted in T.J. Lewis, A View from the Mound: My Father’s Life in Baseball , Lulu.com (publisher, 2008), ISBN 9781435714861,
A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
* Sir J. Harrington
As a verb buck
is .As a proper noun jack is
, also used as a pet form of john or jack can be (slang) jack daniel's, a brand of american whiskey.As a noun jack is
(informal) a placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man.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)page 93,
- This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck .
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.
- Can I borrow five bucks ?
- Corporations will do anything to make a buck
- 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.
- pass the buck''; ''the buck stops here
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 buttonDerived 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-goatEtymology 2
From (etyl) . See above. Compare (bow).Verb
(en verb)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.
- The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
- The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.
- The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
- 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.
Derived terms
* bucker * buck up * buck for * bucking bronco * buck the trendEtymology 3
See beech.Derived terms
* buckmast, buck-mastEtymology 4
Noun
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Verb
(en verb)jack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from the name Jack, from (etyl) JacquesNoun
(en noun)- She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
- Every man jack .
- telephone jack
- like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it
- You haven't done jack . Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
- First off Regan carried fifteen grand, packed it in his clothes all the time. Real money, they tell me. Not just a top card and a bunch of hay. That's a lot of jack [...].
- (Dryden)
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (playing card) knave * (male ass) jackassDerived terms
* bicolor jack * blackfin jack * bootjack * cheap-jack * cottonmouth jack * Crevalle jack * green jack * horse-eye jack * jackanapes * jack-o'-lantern * jack of all trades * jack over * jack plug * jack rabbit * one-eyed jack * Senegal jack * trolley jack * whitetongue jack * Union Jack * yellowfin jackSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- He jacked the car up so that he could replace the brake pads.
- If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
- Someone jacked my car last night!
Derived terms
* jack up (several meanings) * jack offEtymology 2
(en)Verb
(en verb)- An excellent piece of work, Wayne thought, so good in fact, he wasn’t surprised when Bailey walked to the plate and on the first pitch jacked the ball far into the parking lot outside the left-field fence for a tournament winning homerun.
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- Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer.
page 107:
- Maybe he hung a curve ball to somebody and they jacked it out of the park on him and he wasn’t upset about it.
Derived terms
* jack in * jack it in * jack offEtymology 3
(etyl) jaque, jacque, perhaps from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.Noun
(en noun)- Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad.