/bʌk/
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Translation
One dollar. This is an informal word, used most of all in American English.
Word origin
From Old English bucca, a male deer or goat. The money sense grew out of buckskin, a deer hide once traded as a unit of value.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- bucca
Grammar
Gender
Pluralbucks
Examples
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"Bucks" is the plural, so this means five dollars.
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"A buck" is one dollar.
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"Buck" is informal, so you use it with friends, not in a letter.
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