Tink

I put a lot of work into my mixtapes, and I want everybody to understand I am doing this genuinely. I don't even want to be paid for this; I just want you all to hear my music and appreciate it. I think it brings me closer to my fans because they know I'm doing this for them and not just to get the bucks.

American Musician

Simon Travaglia

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Author

Tim Daly

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.

American Actor

Janet Reno

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

American Public Servant

Sanjay Kumar

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

Businessman

Joe Biden

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

American President

Daniela Vega

The most important thing when you're shooting difficult scenes is that you have a supportive team who will buck you up emotionally.

Chilean Actress

Chris Mullin

Sometimes a player can look like a million bucks on tape, but in real life, the kid can't play a lick.

American Athlete

Brantley Gilbert

We're gonna raise some big bucks and breed 'em and that sorta thing. Pretty excited about that.

Patrick Macnee

I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.

British Actor

Use 'buck' when discussing male animals, common in hunting or wildlife conversations.

Wildlife Context

'Buck' only refers to male animals, not females; females are often termed 'does'.

Gender Specific

Use 'buck' as a casual term for money; 'dollars' is more formal.

Informal Money

Common in American English for everyday transactions.

Colloquial Usage

When someone 'bucks', they are not just resisting, but resisting with determination.

Defiance

Use 'buck' to suggest a strong or active form of opposition to something established.

Strong Opposition

The verb 'buck' captures the suddenness of the movement, often associated with animals.

Abrupt Movement

Most often associated with horses, 'to buck' can describe an attempt to dislodge a rider.

Horse Riding Clarification

Used informally when referring to young energetic men, not older or female.

Slang for Men

Appropriate for casual conversation, possibly seen as less respectful in formal settings.

Casual Tone

 cold and there was a guy outside and he looked hungry looked like he needed something to eat let's everybody chip in a buck everybody put a buck and a hat and let's go buy the guy's sandwich now we've helped one person but maybe we put in a couple bucks now we can buy a couple sandwiches more sandwiches for people and that's how it starts to

Making the impossible...

 people who didn't have caddies I would carry their golf bags up to the top and they'd pay me a dollar meanwhile my friends were working for hours to haul some guys bag around and get paid ten bucks I'm like that's stupid because you have to work for five hours that doesn't make any sense you just figure out a way to make more money

Let's raise kids to be...

 bucks it's a hustle I'll make that money so I played with this guy for like I don't know like six months and then we started becoming friends and then uh this guy sent me the Germany flight paid I stayed in this school where all the young best athletes live and I learned

United by Ping Pong,...

 this puff ignited what some historians call the rage to master a voracious dedication to push the boundaries of one's craft this obsessive personality led Picasso down a lifelong path of bucking established traditions I am not in favor of following any determined

Where Did Pablo...

 and the kind of bang you can get for your buck in terms of leveraging a criminal justice system that could function if it were properly trained and motivated and led, and these countries, especially a middle class that is seeing that there's really no future

Gary Haugen: The hidden...

 because we intuitively understand that when something tries to grow forever within a healthy, living, thriving system, it's a threat to the health of the whole. So why would we imagine that our economies would be the one system that could buck this trend

A healthy economy should...

 cargo and although want to do is make a quick buck and they don't care who they hurt they don't care where they put in danger for longer pursues the two men as other agents arrived to help it's a street north spread out all right sprout and

Human Smugglers PIPE...

 and what makes our planet buck that trend? Well, the universe at large is relatively simple. Stars are so simple that we can predict their behavior billions of years into the future, and retrodict how they formed billions of years ago.

After billions of years...

 well you only got three chords ah we'll make them sound like a million bucks chain change in recognition of all you've done the people of the world hereby crown you queen also

Genius: Aretha Chain of...

 but when the rainy season starts he'll need to buck more than a raindrop every year an area of forest the size of the uk floods each canopy tree acts like a giant

Buck

A male animal especially of deer, antelope, or rabbit.

Often appears as...

A dollar.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

To resist stubbornly and rebelliously.

Often appears as...

To move in an irregular movement, especially a horse rising off the ground.

Often appears as...

Young man.

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Usage tips

Wildlife Context

Gender Specific

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