Buck
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Buck may refer to:
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Ships, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
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People:
- Buck (surname)Buck (surname)The surname Buck can refer to:*Antony Buck , British politician*C. Douglass Buck , American engineer and politician, Governor and Senator of Delaware*Carl Darling Buck , American linguist...
- Buck (personal name)Buck (personal name)The given name Buck may refer to:*Buck Canel , American sportscaster*Buck Clayton , American jazz musician*Buck Henry , American actor, writer, and director*Buck Jordan , American baseball player...
- Michael Buckley (Internet celebrity)Michael Buckley (Internet celebrity)Michael Buckley is an American Internet celebrity, comedian and vlogger. Noted for his vlog What the Buck?!, Buckley comments on popular culture events and celebrities. He also maintains one of YouTube's most popular channels with several million viewers each month...
- Buck BrannamanBuck BrannamanDan M. "Buck" Brannaman is a horse trainer and a leading practitioner within the field of Natural horsemanship, which is a philosophy of working with horses based on the idea of working with the horse's nature, using an understanding of how horses think and communicate to train the horse to accept...
Places:
- Buck, PennsylvaniaBuck, PennsylvaniaBuck, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community located in East Drumore Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Buck is located along Pennsylvania Route 272. It is the location of the Buck Tractor Pulls, which is a local attraction in this part of Lancaster County....
, an Unincorporated community in Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaLancaster County, PennsylvaniaLancaster County, known as the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the southeastern part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010 the population was 519,445. Lancaster County forms the Lancaster Metropolitan Statistical Area, the... - Buck Hill Farm Covered BridgeBuck Hill Farm Covered BridgeThe Buck Hill Covered Bridge, Eichelberger's Covered Bridge, or Abram Hess' Mill Bridge is a covered bridge located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located on the Buck Hill Farm's pond on private property....
, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States - Buck Hill Cone, British Columbia, Canada
- Buck Hill Falls, PennsylvaniaBuck Hill Falls, PennsylvaniaBuck Hill Falls is a private resort community in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania.The settlement was founded in 1901 as a Quaker retreat by a group of Friends from Philadelphia, including Charles F...
- Buck Township, Hardin County, OhioBuck Township, Hardin County, OhioBuck Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,441 people in the township, 1,051 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
- Buck Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Fictional characters:
- Buck RogersBuck RogersAnthony Rogers is a fictional character that first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue....
, a science fiction hero from the 1930s and 1970s - Buck (dog), protagonist of The Call of the Wild
- Cameron "Buck" WilliamsCameron "Buck" WilliamsCameron "Buck" Williams is a fictional character in the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Buck is a celebrated news reporter who, after being left behind following the Rapture, becomes one of the founding members of the Tribulation Force.-Pre-Rapture:Buck was born 30...
, a character in the Left Behind novel series - Buck, a main character in the video game 187 Ride or Die187 Ride or Die187 Ride or Die is a video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, developed and published by Ubisoft. In order to become "top dog" of the game the player must race and defeat opponents through a variety of different stages all set in Los Angeles's infamous South Central region.The game's title comes...
- Buck Grangerford, a character from Adventures of Huckleberry FinnAdventures of Huckleberry FinnAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by...
- Buck, the dog owned by the Bundy family on Married... with ChildrenMarried... with ChildrenMarried... with Children is an American surrealistic sitcom that aired for 11 seasons that featured a dysfunctional family living in Chicago, Illinois. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created...
- Buck, a hospital worker in the film Kill BillKill BillKill Bill Volume 1 is a 2003 action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the first of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart, the second volume being Kill Bill Volume 2....
- Buck Cannon, a character in The High ChaparralThe High ChaparralThe High Chaparral is a Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The show was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network...
- Buck O'Brien, protagonist in the film Chuck & BuckChuck & BuckChuck & Buck is a 2000 comedy-drama film written by and starring Mike White, and directed by Miguel Arteta. The title is a reference to the nickname that poet Charles Bukowski was known as in literary circles—Chuck Buk.-Plot:...
- Buck Cluck, the father in the 2005 film Chicken Little
- Buck Turgidson, a general in the film Dr. Strangelove, played by George C. Scott
- Buck Tuddrussel a main character from Cartoon Network´s show "Time Squad" voiced by Rob PaulsenRob PaulsenRobert Fredrick "Rob" Paulsen III , sometimes credited as Rob Paulson, is an American voice actor, best known as the voice behind Raphael from the 1987 cartoon of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yakko Warner and Dr...
- Joe Buck, a character in the film Midnight CowboyMidnight CowboyMidnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller roles are filled by Sylvia Miles, John...
, played by Jon Voight - Buck Russell, the title character in the 1989 film Uncle BuckUncle BuckUncle Buck is a 1989 John Hughes comedy film starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffman, and Macaulay Culkin, and co-stars Jay Underwood and Laurie Metcalf.-Plot:Bob Russell Uncle Buck is a 1989 John Hughes comedy film starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby...
, played by John Candy - Buck, a weasel character from the movie Ice Age: Dawn of the DinosaursIce Age: Dawn of the DinosaursIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, also known as Ice Age 3, is a 2009 3-D computer animated film. It is the third installment of the Ice Age series, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox...
, played by Simon Pegg - Buck MulliganBuck MulliganMalachi "Buck" Mulligan is a fictional character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. He appears most prominently in episode 1 , and is the subject of the novel's famous first sentence:...
, a character in James JoyceJames JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
's novel UlyssesUlysses (novel)Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,... - Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper in Halo 3: ODST video game
Ships, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
Films
- Buck (film)Buck (film)Buck is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Cindy Meehl. The film focuses on the life, career, and philosophy of the real-life "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman.-Synopsis:...
, a 2011 documentary film
Other uses:
- BuckingBuckingBucking is a movement performed by a horse or bull in which the animal lowers his head and raises his hindquarters into the air, usually while kicking out with his hind legs. If powerful, it may unseat the rider enough so that he falls off....
, a movement by a horse when the animal kicks out with both hind legs - Buck is a colloquialismColloquialismA colloquialism is a word or phrase that is common in everyday, unconstrained conversation rather than in formal speech, academic writing, or paralinguistics. Dictionaries often display colloquial words and phrases with the abbreviation colloq. as an identifier...
for a dollarDollarThe dollar is the name of the official currency of many countries, including Australia, Belize, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.-Etymology:...
or similar currency in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Africa and the United States - Bang for the buckBang for the buckBang for the buck is an idiom meaning the worth of one's money or exertion. The phrase originated from the slang usage of the words "bang" which means "excitement" and "buck" which means "money". Variations of the term include more bang for the buck and bigger bang for the buck...
, an idiom meaning the worth of one's money or exertion - Male deerDeerDeer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the Cervidae family include white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer, fallow deer, roe deer and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year...
and goatGoatThe domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...
s are referred to as bucks (larger species of male deer such as elkElkThe Elk is the large deer, also called Cervus canadensis or wapiti, of North America and eastern Asia.Elk may also refer to:Other antlered mammals:...
or mooseMooseThe moose or Eurasian elk is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic configuration...
are called bullBullBull usually refers to an uncastrated adult male bovine.Bull may also refer to:-Entertainment:* Bull , an original show on the TNT Network* "Bull" , an episode of television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation...
s) - A Buck converterBuck converterA buck converter is a step-down DC to DC converter. Its design is similar to the step-up boost converter, and like the boost converter it is a switched-mode power supply that uses two switches , an inductor and a capacitor....
is an electronic circuit which performs DC to DC stepdown conversion - A derogatory term (primarily 19th C) for an African American male, the female counterpart being Wench.
- A term used to describe the krump dance style.
- The body of a Post millPost millThe post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have...
See also
- BUCK MagazineBUCK MagazineBuck was a monthly men's magazine based in the UK and available internationally, focusing on fashion, design and food. It was launched on 30 October 2008 as an independent title edited and published by Steve Doyle. Buck ceased publication on 5 January 2011.- References :*...
- Bucks (disambiguation)
- Bucky (disambiguation)Bucky (disambiguation)Bucky can refer to:Real people:*Bucky Covington, musician and American Idol finalist*Bucky Dent, Major League Baseball player*Bucky Lasek, professional skateboarder*Buckminster Fuller, American designer, architect, and inventor...
- BuckleyBuckleyBuckley is a town and community in Flintshire, located in north-east Wales. It is situated 2 miles from the county town of Mold and is contiguous with the nearby villages of Ewloe, Alltami and Mynydd Isa...
- Buckley (disambiguation)Buckley (disambiguation)- Phrases :* "Buckley's chance", or simply "Buckley's", derived from the life of English convict William Buckley * "It Tastes Awful. And It Works.", a highly successful cough syrup marketing slogan of the W.K. Buckley Ltd...
- Buckshot
- Buck KnivesBuck KnivesBuck Knives is an American knife manufacturer founded in San Diego, California 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...
, an American knife manufacturer.