golden buck

noun

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An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

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Receipts for Welsh Rarebit and Golden Buck are given on pages 371 and 372.

Perhaps because it's easily approached, The Golden Buck's a game that's often poached.

No branching antlers this strange beast adorn, But with the Golden Buck we take a horn.

At least that is what it looks like to us—a golden buck, forty cents at any good restaurant—in the act of undergoing spontaneous combustion.

A "Golden Buck" is merely the addition of a poached egg which is put carefully on top of rarebit.

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