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'''Buck''' may refer to any of the following:
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*[[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)]]
***Buck Fever is the name given to the feeling a novice hunter gets. This meaning is also used as the title of [[Buck Fever| Estradasphere's]] second album.
**[[rabbit]]s
**[[squirrel]]s
**[[goat]]s
*A slang term for:
**A type of shoe
**African [[Antelope| antelope]]
**a [[man|human male]]
**a sexually adventurous [[boy]]
**a [[dollar]] or similar national currencies (particularly in [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[New Zealand]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[South Africa]] and [[United States]])
**1 million dollars in [[Wall Street]] [[Trader (finance)|traders]] parlance
**a repetition of an old joke, story, or fact, especially by email
**a [[chicken]] (bucker), from the sound a chicken makes
**a slight punch in the arm
**an [[Indigenous peoples|aboriginal]] male
**A [[Button (poker)|marker or button]] that indicates the dealer in the card game [[Poker]]
**'[[Pass the Buck]]' and 'The Buck Stops Here' also both refer to the Poker marker.
*[[Buck (band)]]
*[[Buck-Tick]] are a [[Japan]]ese [[rock band]]
* A [[buck converter]] is a type of [[electronics]] [[smps|power supply]]
*To 'buck the trend' is to be an exception to a rule
*A popular term in America for an uncle. "''[[Uncle Buck]]''" after the Hollywood hit starring [[John Candy]].
*The [[Beatty Buck]] was a very large [[white-tailed deer]] shot with a [[compound bow]]
*A kind of knife: [[Buck knife]]
*Buck Wild. Getting Buck Wild means going nuts, having fun, leaving your fears behind, and/or getting really drunk
==People==
===Real===
*[[Buck 65]], is a [[Canadian]] [[hip hop]] artist
*[[Buck Angel]], a female to male, pre-op [[transsexual]] porn star.
*[[Buck Henry]], American actor, writer and director
*[[Buck Owens]], American singer and guitarist
*[[Buck Rodgers]], Former [[Major League Baseball|Major League]] catcher and manager of the [[Montreal Expos]].
*[[James Buchanan|James "Buck" Buchanan]], the fifteenth [[President of the United States]]
*[[Lynn Compton|Lynn "Buck" Compton]], platoon leader of [[E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)|Easy Company]] ([[Band of Brothers]])
*[[Donald Roeser|Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser]] (born 1947), an American guitarist
*[[Chester Weimer|Chester "Buck" Weimer]], American inventor of [[Flatulence#Post-Release|charcoal-filtered undergarments]]
*[[Carl Darling Buck]], American linguist (1866-1955)
*[[Carrie Buck]], unsuccessful [[plaintiff]] in [[Buck v. Bell]], which upheld [[compulsory sterilization]]
*[[David Buck]], British actor
*[[Detlev Buck]] (born 1962), a German film director
*[[Dudley Buck]], U.S. composer (1839-1909)
*[[Frank Buck (animal collector)|Frank Buck]], an animal collector
*[[Frank Buck (politician)|Frank Buck]], a [[Tennessee]] politician
*[[Gurdon Buck]], American Surgeon, performed first clinical photograph, contributed to numerous fields of surgery
*[[Jack Buck]], [[St. Louis Cardinals]], [[Hall of Fame]] broadcaster
*[[John Buck (baseball player)|John Buck]] (born 1980), an American [[baseball]] player
*[[John E. Buck]] (born 1946), an American sculptor and printmaker
*[[John R. Buck]] (1835-1917), a United States [[United States Congress|congressman]]
*[[Joe Buck]], an American sportscaster
*[[Julie Buck]] (born 1974), an American artist and photographer
*[[Pearl S. Buck]], American novelist
*[[Peter Buck]], guitarist and co-founder of [[R.E.M.]]
*[[Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck)|Sir Peter Henry Buck]], a prominent member of the Ngāti Mutunga [[Māori]] [[iwi]]
*[[Antony Buck|Sir Philip Antony Fyson Buck]], a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Conservative]] politician
*[[Robert Buck| Robert N. "Rob" Buck]], a North American guitarist and songwriter
*[[Samantha Buck]], an American actress
*[[Travis Buck]], an American baseball player
*[[Young Buck]], an American rapper
===Fictional===
*[[Buck (dog)|Buck]], the main character in [[The Call of the Wild]]
*Buck is the name of a main character in the Video Game [[187 Ride or Die]]'
*Buck Grangerford is the name of [[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (novel)| Huck Finn's]] friend
*Buck is the name of the [[briard]] owned by the Bundys on [[Married... with Children]].
*Buck is also the name of a hospital worker in the film [[Kill Bill]].
*Buck Cannon is the brother of 'Big' John Cannon in [[The High Chaparral]]
*Buck O'Brien is the name of a character in the film [[Chuck & Buck]].
*[[Buck Rogers]] is a [[science fiction]] hero from the 1930s and 1970s.
*[[Buck (From Dusk Till Dawn)]] is a character from the film, [[From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money]].
*[[Buck Cluck]] is the father of the film version of [[Chicken Little]]
*[[Cameron "Buck" Williams]] is a character in the [[Left Behind (series)|Left Behind]] series
*[[Frank Buck (fictional)|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
*[[General Buck Turgidson]], a [[strategic bombing]] expert in the film [[Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]] played by [[George C. Scott]]
* Joe Buck is the name of the character played by [[Jon Voight]] in the film [[Midnight Cowboy]]
* Buck Russell is the title character portrayed by [[John Candy]] in the 1989 film [[Uncle Buck]].
==Places and geographical features==
* Buck, [[East Drumore]], Lancaster, PA, USA
* [[Buck Hill Farm Covered Bridge]]
* [[Buck Hill Cone]], British Columbia, Canada
* [[Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania]]
* [[Buck Township, Hardin County, Ohio]]
* Buck, Luzerne, PA, USA
* Buck, [[Pentraeth]], [[Isle of Anglesey]], UK
* Buck, Uninc [[Summers County, West Virginia]], USA
* Buck, Uninc [[Carroll County, Virginia]], USA
* Buck, Uninc [[Wilkes County, North Carolina]], USA
* Buck Hill Ski Place, MN
==See also==
*[[Bucks]]
*[[buckshot]]
*[[buck and ball]]
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