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A Buck

  1. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
  2. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
  3. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
  4. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
  5. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
  6. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
  7. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
  8. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
  9. (US, slang) One hundred.
  10. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  11. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
  12. (Britain, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
  13. (finance) One million dollars.
  14. (informal) A euro.
  15. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  16. a leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting
  17. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See Street Rodder "Making a Wood Buck".
  18. (African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance

Synonym of mule (type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.)

Synonyms

(male deer): stag

(male goat): billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat

(male ferret): hob, hob-ferret

(ram): ram, tup

(slang: dollar): bill, bone, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single, smackeroo

(item that indicates dealer in poker): button, dealer button