buck
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2.6
- noun
- /bʌk/
- Informal
- He owes me ten bucks for lunch last week.
- make a buck
- pay bucks
- bang for the buck
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Watch on YouTubeWeber bucks don't equate to US bucks, clearly.
- Weber bucks don't equate to US bucks, clearly.
- Maybe we should do The Big Bang for the buck first on that.
- They'll run to get there, you know, and they spend bucks, bucks upon bucks.
- His name was Buddy, and he had bucks, like little dollar bills.
- So AKA don't try to make a buck in savings accounts right now.
- OK, OK, two more bucks added to my pal.
- So I'm going to apply some bucks on mascara, No clump it on.
Examples
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I need a couple of hundred thousand bucks.
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I'll make about two bucks on that video.
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So always take the extra buck if you have to spend it on yourself.
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But I mean, for three bucks, maybe not.
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And I need a million bucks, OK.
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The company is losing half a million bucks a day.
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And I had three bucks on the favorite.
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30 bucks an hour, guys!
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I get the three hundred bucks out again and lay them on the counter.
Fiction book (1991) -
But let's settle on 40 bucks.
Synonyms
80
1.0
A piece of paper money worth one US dollar
22
1.0
A piece of paper money or a coin worth 100 cents
10
9.6
An informal US word for one dollar
8
1.0
A piece of paper money worth one dollar that you use to pay for things
6
1.0
The unit of money used in the United States, equal to 100 cents
Idioms
1
9.9
A loss for investors that happens when a money market fund's share falls below one dollar
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Buck for a dollar comes from buckskin ('deerskin'), which was used in frontier trade as a kind of money, so a 'buck' became a name for one dollar.