bucked
adjective British Informal.
Origin of bucked
buck
2verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
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2buck
3noun
verb (used with object)
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3buck
4noun
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4buck
5noun
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5buck
6verb (used without object), noun Indian English.
Related Words for bucked
withstand, oppose, traverse, duel, combat, jerk, contest, dislodge, bound, fight, jump, start, leap, repel, prance, throw, unseat, vault, trip, disputeExamples from the Web for bucked
Contemporary Examples of bucked
Her parents were told to institutionalize her, but thankfully, they bucked the conventional advice.
Bloom, of course, both started and bucked the trend with How to Read and Why.
Born a peasant, she bucked the system, donned armor to save her country, and paid for those choices with her life.
The academic field is famously hostile to believers and Aslan has bucked that worldview.
Mr. Kagan resigned the deanship in April 1992, lobbing a parting bomb at the faculty that bucked his administration.
Historical Examples of bucked
I'd like to hear Weary or anybody else stand up and tell me that I got bucked off.
Chip, of the Flying UB. M. Bower
And the girl—Miss Desha has bucked poverty like a thoroughbred.
Garrison's FinishW. B. M. Ferguson
Mother's fearfully' bucked, and Dawker's simply oozing triumph.
The Skin Game (Fourth Series Plays)John Galsworthy
Bucked and throwed me, but I kept my holt o' the stirrups with my foot—so!
A Waif of the PlainsBret Harte
He bucked up firewood and stacked it to move into camp with the first snow.
Cat and MouseRalph Williams