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Definition of buck : 1. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
3. A male Indian or negro.
4. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
5. The beech tree.
6. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
7. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
8. To break up or pulverize, as ores.
9. To copulate, as bucks and does.
10. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.
11. To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; - said of a vicious horse or mule.
12. To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
13. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
14. To wash ( clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

Synonyms:

defeat, excite, go against, infract, dissipate, sprout, agitate, thumb, send, cavalry, level, protrusive, pullulate, accuse, fritter away, frivol away, deer, sawbuck, dollar sign, spud, flash, appoint, yank, tear, point, dollar, fool away, bull, land, dart, load, turn on, scoot, pull, resist, film, gimp, flick, one dollar bill, traverse, contest, hit, institutionalize, scud, long horse, knight, offend, hobble, institutionalise, deplume, charge up, dollar mark, horse, commove, blast, horse cavalry, support, inject, charge, pip, bill, photograph, take, subordinate, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, lodge, fool, catch, saddle, vote down, rouse, dollar bill, breach, dispute, oppose, shoot-down, challenge, dash, down, hitch, blame, bust, sawhorse, file, break, clam, violate, shoot, bourgeon, burden, consign, bucked, rupture, transgress, kill, fritter, gymnastic horse, displume, pearl buck, low-level, commit, goat, deplumate, vaulting horse, stag, twitch, pluck, bear down, snap, burgeon forth, jerk, hitchhike, limp, germinate, vote out

gent, chap, manhood, guy, man, hombre, fellow, male, gentleman, boy, masculinity

Usage examples:

• You are Captain William Clark, with your elk- hide notebook inside your shirt front, and you have gone ashore and have killed a fat buck. - "The Young Alaskans on the Missouri", Emerson Hough.
• Why don't you buck up and find out what she has to say? - "Carl and the Cotton Gin", Sara Ware Bassett.
• I had to send jest that word, Little Buck- jest that very word; nothin' less would 'a' brought him. - "Judith of the Cumberlands", Alice MacGowan.