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Buck may refer to:
Common meanings
- A colloquialism for a dollar or similar currency in various countries
- An adult male in some animal species; see List of animal names
- Derby shoes, nicknamed "bucks" for the common use of buckskin in their making
People
- Buck (surname), a list of people
- Buck (nickname), a list of people
- Buck Pierce (born 1981), Canadian Football League coach and retired quarterback
- Gilles Buck (born 1935), French sailor who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Buck Angel (born 1972), American trans man, adult film producer and performer
- Buck Dharma, stage name of American guitarist Donald Roeser (born 1947)
- Buck Henry (born 1930), stage name of American actor, writer, and director Henry Zuckerman
- Buck Jones (1891–1942), stage name of American film actor Charles Frederick Gebhart
- Buck Owens (1929–2006), stage name of American singer, songwriter and guitarist Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr.
- Michael Buckley (Internet celebrity) (born 1975), American Internet celebrity, comedian and vlogger
Places
- Buck, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
- Buck Township, Hardin County, Ohio
- Buck Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Fictional characters
- Buck Rogers, a science fiction hero from the 1930s and 1970s
- Buck (dog), protagonist of The Call of the Wild
- Buck Cannon, in the American television show The High Chaparral
- Buck Cluck, Chicken Little's father in the 2005 film Chicken Little
- Buck Frobisher, on the television series Due South, played by Leslie Nielsen
- Buck Grangerford, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Buck Laughlin, in the 2000 film Best in Show
- Buck Mulligan, in James Joyce's novel Ulysses
- Buck O'Brien, protagonist in the 2000 film Chuck & Buck
- Buck Russell, the title character in the 1989 film Uncle Buck, played by John Candy
- Buck Tuddrussel, a main character from Cartoon Network´s show Time Squad, voiced by Rob Paulsen
- Buck Turgidson, a general in the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, played by George C. Scott
- Cameron "Buck" Williams, a reporter in the Left Behind novel series
- Buck, the dog owned by the Bundy family on the television show Married... with Children
- Buck, a horse in the 2004 Disney movie Home on the Range, voiced by Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Buck, a weasel character from the movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, played by Simon Pegg
- Buck, a main character in the video game 187 Ride or Die
- Joe Buck, title character of the novel and film Midnight Cowboy
- Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper in the Halo 3: ODST video game, later he becomes a Spartan IV supersoldier, he appears in the Halo 5: Guardians
Other uses
- USS Buck, several United States Navy ships
- Buck (film), a 2011 documentary
- Buck: A Memoir, a 2013 book by MK Asante
- BUCK or Brony UK Con, brony convention, based in Manchester, United Kingdom
- Buck (cocktail)
- Buck (company), a design-driven creative commercial production company
- Buck Knives, an American knife manufacturer
- Buck (magazine), a defunct UK publication (2008-2011)
- a krump dance style
See also
- Bucks (disambiguation)
- Bucky (disambiguation)
- Bucking, a movement by a horse when the animal kicks out with both hind legs
- Log bucking, cutting timbers to length
- Buck converter, a voltage step down and current step up converter
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