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Buck

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Buck

Type

free base

Denotation

dollar, currency

Etymology

clip of buckskin (<Buck + Skin>), unit of trade on the 18c. American frontier

Evidence

buck, buckraker, bucks, dollarbuck, gigabuck, kilobuck, megabuck, sawbuck, terabuck

See Also

Homographs

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