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1. To strive with determination
   "John is bucking for a promotion"
    
2. Resist
   "buck the trend";
   - go against
    
3. Move quickly and violently
   "The car bucked down the street";
   - tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, bomb [Brit], scream
    
4. Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
   "the young filly bucked";
   - jerk, hitch

1. A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
   - vaulting horse, long horse
    
2. A piece of paper money worth one dollar
   - dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, clam [US], single [US]
    
3. A framework for holding wood that is being sawed
   - sawhorse, horse, sawbuck [N. Amer]
    
4. Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

1. United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
   - Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Derived forms: Bucks, bucking, bucked, bucks

Type of: author, bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, belt along, bill [N. Amer], bucket along, cannonball along, endeavor [US], endeavour [Brit, Cdn], eutherian, eutherian mammal, Federal Reserve note [US], framework, government note [US], greenback [US], gymnastic horse, hasten, hie [archaic], horse, hotfoot, hurry, missionary, missioner, move, note, oppose, pelt along, placental, placental mammal, race, react, rush, rush along, speed, step on it, strive, travel rapidly, writer, zip

Encyclopedia: Buck, Pennsylvania Buck Buck, the Animated Trophy Buck, West Virginia Buck, Victor De