Definitions
jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
Word origin
From Middle English bukke, bucke, buc, from Old English buc, bucc, bucca (“he-goat, stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“buck”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“ram”). Doublet of puck (“billy goat”).
Used in a sentence
“There are all kinds of game in the valley, and you are unlucky if you do not see a giraffe or an ostrich, or at least a herd of buck.”
“This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.”
“As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Antlered male”4 letters
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