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buck
verb as in resist, oppose
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Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.
President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”
Jamming Netanyahu at the UN will buck him up among the right.
Some things have changed a lot since 1984 when the errant Father Buck wrote to his young love interest.
So often enough, those urchins are buck-naked and streaming wet.
G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.
We squatted in the long grass and buck-brush, listening, and a few seconds later heard a horse snort distinctly.
The buck had been passed, let the boys sitting on their backsides down on Earth handle it.
It was a huge buck, with wide-spreading antlers, rising out of the bushes where it stood.
The bread is made of wheat meal, but in some cottages consisted of thin cakes without leven, and made of buck-wheat.
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On this page you'll find 120 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to buck, such as: bull, and stag.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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