Buck may refer to:
Common meanings
* A colloquialism for a
dollar
Dollar is the name of more than 20 currencies. They include the Australian dollar, Brunei dollar, Canadian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, Jamaican dollar, Liberian dollar, Namibian dollar, New Taiwan dollar, New Zealand dollar, Singapore dollar, U ...
or similar currency
* An adult male in some animal species - see
List of animal names
In the English language, animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups.
The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is '' The Book of Saint A ...
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Derby shoe
A derby ( , ; also called gibson) is a style of boot or shoe characterized by quarters, with shoelace eyelets that are sewn on top of the vamp. s, nicknamed "bucks" for the common use of buckskin in their making
People
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Buck (nickname) Buck is the nickname of the following people (for fictional characters, see Buck):
Notable in multiple fields
*Lynn Compton (1921–2012), lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, California Court of Ap ...
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Buck Pierce
Buck James Pierce (born November 15, 1981) is the offensive coordinator of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and a retired professional quarterback who played nine seasons for the BC Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. H ...
(born 1981), Canadian football quarterback
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Buck (surname) Buck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arts and entertainment
*David Buck (1936–1989), British actor
*Detlev Buck (born 1962), German film director
* Dudley Buck (1839–1909), American composer
*John E. Buck (born 1946), Ame ...
, a list of people
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Buck 65
Richard Terfry (born March 4, 1972), better known by his stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian alternative hip hop artist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, ...
, stage name of Canadian hip hop artist Richard Terfry
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Buck Angel
Buck Angel (born June 5, 1962) is an American pornographic film actor, producer and sex educator. He is the founder of the media production company Buck Angel Entertainment. A transsexual man, he received the 2007 AVN Award as Transsexual Perfo ...
, stage name of American trans man, adult film producer and performer Jake Miller (born 1972)
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Buck Dharma
Donald Roeser (born November 12, 1947), known by his stage name Buck Dharma, is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the sole constant member of hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult since the group's formation in 1967. He wrote and ...
, stage name of American guitarist Donald Roeser (born 1947)
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Buck Ellison
Buck Ellison (born 1987) is an American visual artist, known for his photography. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Biography
Buck Ellison was born in 1987 in San Francisco, California. He received a BA degree in German literature from Columbia ...
(born 1987), American artist
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Buck Henry
Buck Henry (born Henry Zuckerman; December 9, 1930 – January 8, 2020) was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. Henry's contributions to film included his work as a co-writer for Mike Nichols's ''The Graduate'' (1967) for which he re ...
, stage name of American actor, writer, and director Henry Zuckerman (1930–2020)
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Buck Jones
Buck Jones (born Charles Frederick Gebhart; December 12, 1891 – November 30, 1942) was an American actor, known for his work in many popular Western movies. In his early film appearances, he was credited as Charles Jones.
Early life, milita ...
, stage name of American film actor Charles Gebhart (1891–1942)
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Buck Owens
Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006), known professionally as Buck Owens, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for the Buckaroos, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 ...
, stage name of American singer and guitarist Alvis Owens Jr. (1929–2006)
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Young Buck
David Darnell Brown (born March 15, 1981), best known by his stage name Young Buck, is an American rapper. He heads his own record label, Cashville, and was a member of the former hip hop group G-Unit.
Early life
Brown was born in Nashville, Te ...
, stage name of American rapper David Darnell Brown (born 1981)
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David Paul Grove
David Paul Grove (born December 10, 1958) is a Canadian actor.
Career
Grove has voiced Jonny 2x4 in ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' and played one of the Dwarfs, Doc, in ''Once Upon a Time''. He has appeared in several Christmas films like ''Elf'' and ''The ...
(born 1958), Canadian voice actor, often credited as "Buck"
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Bunkhouse Buck
James "Jimmy" Golden (born August 1, 1950) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under the ring name Bunkhouse Buck. He also appeared in WWE as Jack Swagger Sr.
A member o ...
, a ring name of American professional wrestler James Golden (born 1950)
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Buck Quartermain
Buck Quartermain is the professional name of Jason Seguine (born July 24, 1967), an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his work as a jobber in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment
He also worked for Extreme Championship W ...
and Buck Q, ring names of American professional wrestler Jason Seguine (born 1967)
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Buck Zumhofe
Eugene Otto "Buck" Zumhofe (born March 21, 1951) is a convicted sex offender and former American professional wrestler better known as "The King of Rock n' Roll" Buck Zumhofe. In 2014, Zumhofe was sentenced to 25 years in prison for criminal sexu ...
, a ring name of American professional wrestler Eugene Otto Zumhofe (born 1951)
Places in the United States
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Buck Creek (disambiguation)
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Buck, Pennsylvania
Buck is an unincorporated community in East Drumore Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. Pennsylvania Route 272
Pennsylvania Route 272 (PA 272) is a highway in southeastern Pennsylvania, in the Lancaster area. The south ...
, an unincorporated community
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Buck Township, Hardin County, Ohio
Buck Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,449, of whom 1,070 lived in the unincorporated portion of the township.
Geography
Located in the southern center of ...
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Buck Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Buck Township is a township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 378, making it the least populous township in the county.
History
The area was first settled in the 1780s by John Nagle. The firs ...
Fictional characters
* Buck, a character in the film ''
Kill Bill: Volume 1'' (2003)
* Buck, the canine central character of the 1903 novel ''
The Call of the Wild
''The Call of the Wild'' is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Bu ...
'' (with later adaptations in other media)
* Buck, the family dog on the television series ''
Married... with Children'' (1987–1997)
* Buck, a horse in the film ''
Home on the Range
"Home on the Range" is a classic cowboy song, sometimes called the "unofficial anthem" of the American West. Dr. Brewster M. Higley (also spelled Highley) of Smith County, Kansas, wrote the lyrics as the poem "My Western Home" in 1872 or 1873 ...
'' (2004)
* Buck, a main character in the video game ''
187 Ride or Die
''187 Ride or Die'' is a video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, developed and published by Ubisoft. It is a vehicular combat racing game and was released for the PS2 and Xbox before being ported to the PlayStation Portable under the title '' S ...
'' (2005)
* Buck, Tuck Turtle's cousin in the animated television series ''
Wonder Pets
''Wonder Pets!'' is an American educational animated children's television series created by Josh Selig for Nickelodeon. The series follows a trio of classroom pets—Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck and Ming-Ming Duckling—who use teamwork t ...
'' (2006–2013)
* Buck, a weasel in the animated film ''
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' (2009)
* Buck, Arlo's triplet sibling in the animated film ''
The Good Dinosaur
''The Good Dinosaur'' is a 2015 American computer-animated adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Sohn (in his feature directorial debut) and p ...
'' (2015)
* Buck Cannon, in the television series ''
The High Chaparral
''The High Chaparral'' television series, which was broadcast on NBC from 1967 to 1971, is an American Western action adventure drama set in the 1870s. It stars Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell. The series was made by Xanadu Productions in ...
'' (1967–1971)
* Buck Cluck, Chicken Little's father in the animated film ''
Chicken Little
"Henny Penny", more commonly known in the United States as "Chicken Little" and sometimes as "Chicken Licken", is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end ...
'' (2005)
* Buck Grangerford, a character in the 1884 novel ''
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' or as it is known in more recent editions, ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United St ...
'' (with later adaptations in other media)
* Buck Huckster, a character in the animated television series ''
Beverly Hills Teens
''Beverly Hills Teens'' is an American animated children's television program produced by DIC Animation City. Distributed by Access Syndication and originally airing in first-run syndication in the United States from September 21, 1987 through D ...
'' (1987)
* Buck Laughlin, a character in the film ''
Best in Show'' (2000)
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Buck Mulligan
Malachi Roland St. John "Buck" Mulligan is a fictional character in James Joyce's 1922 novel '' Ulysses''. He appears most prominently in episode 1 ''(Telemachus)'', and is the subject of the novel's famous first sentence:
"Stately, plump Buck ...
, a character in James Joyce's 1922 novel ''Ulysses''
* Buck O'Brien, protagonist in the film ''
Chuck & Buck
''Chuck & Buck'' is a 2000 American black comedy drama film directed by Miguel Arteta. It was written by and starred Mike White in the leading role.
Plot
Buck O'Brien is a 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent. ...
'' (2000)
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Buck Rogers
Buck Rogers is a science fiction adventure hero and feature comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan first appearing in daily US newspapers on January 7, 1929, and subsequently appearing in Sunday newspapers, international newspapers, books ...
, a science fiction hero introduced in a 1929 comic strip (with later adaptations in other media)
* Buck Russell, the title character in the film ''
Uncle Buck
''Uncle Buck'' is a 1989 American comedy film written and directed by John Hughes, and starring John Candy and Amy Madigan with supporting roles by Jean Louisa Kelly (in her film debut), Macaulay Culkin, Gaby Hoffmann, Garrett M. Brown and Ela ...
'' (1989)
* Buck Tuddrussel, a character in the animated television series ''
Time Squad
''Time Squad'' is an American animated television series created by Dave Wasson for Cartoon Network and the 10th of the network's Cartoon Cartoons. It follows the adventures of Otto Osworth, Buck Tuddrussel, and the robot Larry 3000, a trio of ha ...
'' (2001–2003)
* Buck Turgidson, a general in the film ''
Dr. Strangelove
''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'', known simply and more commonly as ''Dr. Strangelove'', is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and t ...
'' (1964)
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Cameron "Buck" Williams
This a list of characters in the ''Left Behind'' novel series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
Suhail Akbar
Suhail Akbar is a supporting antagonist in the ''Left Behind'' series. A native of Pakistan, he was a prominent member of the Glob ...
, a reporter introduced in 1995 in the ''Left Behind'' multimedia franchise
* Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, a character introduced to the ''Halo'' franchise in the video game ''
Halo 3: ODST'' (2009)
* Joe Buck, title character in the 1965 novel ''
Midnight Cowboy
''Midnight Cowboy'' is a 1969 American drama (film and television), drama film, based on the 1965 Midnight Cowboy (novel), novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The film was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars ...
'' (with later adaptations in other media)
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Sergeant Buck Frobisher, on the television series ''Due South'' (1994–1999)
Other uses
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Buck (cocktail)
A buck is a cocktail that is made with ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and any of a number of base liquors. Buck cocktails are sometimes called "mules" due to the popularity of a vodka buck that is known as a Moscow Mule.
History
Th ...
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Buck (crater), on Venus
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Buck (design company), a design-driven creative commercial production company
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''Buck'' (film), a 2011 documentary
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Buck (human resources consulting company)
Buck (formerly Buck Consultants) is a global HR benefits and human resource consulting firm controlled by H.I.G. Capital.
History
Founded as an actuarial firm in New York City in 1916 by George B. Buck Sr., in 2016 the firm had more than 1,50 ...
, a human resources consulting company
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Buck Knives
Buck Knives is an American knife manufacturer founded in Mountain Home, Idaho and now located in Post Falls, Idaho. The company has a long history through five generations of the Buck family from 1902 to the present day. Buck Knives primarily man ...
, an American knife manufacturer
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''Buck'' (magazine), a defunct UK publication (2008-2011)
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Buck (software)
Buck is a multi-language build system developed and used by Meta Platforms, Inc. It was designed for building small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources within a monorepo. It supports C++ (Objective-C
Objective-C is a general- ...
, software for building other software
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''Buck'' (video game), a 2017 side-scrolling beat 'em up
* ''
Buck: A Memoir'', a 2013 book by MK Asante
* , several United States Navy ships
* BUCK, a
brony
'' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' is an animated television series produced by Hasbro as part of the ''My Little Pony'' toy franchise, which is tied in with the 2010 relaunch of dolls and play sets and original programming for the Amer ...
convention in Manchester, UK
* a
krump
Krumping is a style of street dance popularized in the United States, described as Afro-diasporic dance, characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement. Dancers who started krumping saw the dance as a means for the ...
dance style
See also
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Bucking
Bucking is a movement performed by an animal in which it lowers its head and raises its hindquarters into the air while kicking out with the hind legs. It is most commonly seen in herbivores such as equines, cattle, deer, goats, and sheep. Most r ...
, a movement by a horse when the animal kicks out with both hind legs
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Bucks (disambiguation)
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Bucky (disambiguation)
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Buk (disambiguation)
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