I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
big bucks
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Her parents spent big bucks on her wedding.
buck teeth
buck the trend (= do something that is not what is generally happening )
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The recession may still be biting, but video games company Nintendo continues to buck the trend.
Buck's Fizz
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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And it provides lists of San Francisco Bay area residents who have handed big bucks to candidates.
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Maybe it's the nations healthy suspicion of flash gestures and big bucks .
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At the same time, employees see their CEOs raking in the big bucks .
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Meanwhile, the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street's investment bankers were starting to dry up.
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And there are big bucks to be had, from $ 350 for first place to $ 50 for third.
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One day I took the beasts hunting and they raised a big fat buck .
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For instance, the network has shelled out big bucks to snare Bill Cosby for a new sitcom in the fall.
fast
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I think people go out to make a fast buck without worrying about the consequences.
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All you had to do was write about it afterwards, and you could make a real fast buck .
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We are not in this for a fast buck .
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A fast buck Henry Rix 12.45:IT is hard to envisage anything but the front two in the market winning this Grade Two contest.
quick
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That means forgetting about the quick bucks to be made from selling nuclear technology.
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Wouldn't you like to make a quick buck , Derek?
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Of course no bright young thing who wants to make a quick buck would consider going into the ministry.
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Others would prefer just to fuel the war - and make a quick buck at the same time.
young
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That's why she hates young bucks like you, Harry.
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I mean, without knowing it ... She's always been one to surround herself with young bucks .
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All the young men were bucks - a young buck in the old days used to be a gentleman.
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A young buck private saw the first body as they approached the village.
■ VERB
cost
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I've also got an Explorer which cost me four hundred bucks - mind you, there's no case with that.
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It cost five bucks to get in, and then 25-cent beers from there.
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The electorate will buy what they're shown is right, though persuading them costs a lot of bucks .
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Unfortunately, the weapon mopping up after the Cold War is very lethal, costs a few hundred bucks and is everywhere.
get
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They got three hundred bucks at the end of each week and spent it.
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If I would have picked it up, it would have blown up: He picks it up and gets 50 bucks .
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I've got a few bucks on me.
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Become a student and get paid the big bucks .
give
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Next, Tod goes and gives him eight hundred bucks .
make
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Me thinks another pilgrim is trying to make a buck .
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Still others, to make a buck .
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I also want to make some serious bucks out of this.
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The idea was to hang together, keep in touch with the audience and maybe make a few bucks .
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I think people go out to make a fast buck without worrying about the consequences.
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You muddle through, reduced to selling your own ads to make a decent buck .
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Wouldn't you like to make a quick buck , Derek?
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Flip open any page and somebody is making a buck .
pass
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If in doubt, pass the buck .
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Shouldn't we now be acknowledging blame rather than passing the buck ?
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I personally refuse to pass the buck .
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We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck .
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Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck .
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Mr. Loyden Is not the Minister passing the buck ?
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When anything like this happened, every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department.
pay
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Either pay some one big bucks to do it for you, or learn what it takes and do it yourself.
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Become a student and get paid the big bucks .
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Fans pay big bucks to watch them, and a $ 65 hockey ticket comes with a license to boo.
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Non-county residents pay a couple extra bucks .
spend
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Want great graphics without spending big bucks on software?
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I spend three bucks a week on Trojans because the pill makes you waterlogged and puffy.
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They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(get) a bigger/better etc bang for your buck
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
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I felt like a million dollars.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Could I borrow ten bucks?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A couple of the older bucks are very dark with fine, wide antlers.
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Bet 10 bucks on some 20-year-olds.
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But a million bucks was a million bucks.
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Fallow deer, he says, are less pricey - a buck will fetch around £4-500, a doe about £80-90.
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For 100 bucks an ounce, you can stink like us.
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I'd moved my head far too quickly for it to look natural, and the buck shot off up the bank.
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I had to sell it for what I could get, which was five bucks, and start hitchhiking home.
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That means forgetting about the quick bucks to be made from selling nuclear technology.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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The weather bucked up once we were back, tho' it is far from warm.
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Hey, buck up , Jerry.
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I say, buck up , Bill - if you're man enough for Gennifer, you're man enough for me!
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Short-term projects to improve customer service might buck up the conviction of those managers.
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I wish it would buck up and be Monday.
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Dust curls as the limos kick and buck up the track towards the freeway.
■ NOUN
hundred
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Six hundred bucks , on the other hand, is 600 bucks.
idea
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Meanwhile, both Severiano Ballesteros and Jose-Maria Olazabal had bucked their ideas up.
million
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But a million bucks was a million bucks.
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But if he lost, he was out of pocket a million bucks .
month
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Three bucks a month , every month, for what?
system
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Natural rebels, backed up with the guts it takes to buck the system .
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Another teacher with an unconventional style, bucking the system and saving kids.
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Attempts to buck that system would end in the courtrooms or, as likely, unemployment.
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But at the crucial moment, Burton had bucked the system .
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To do so they would have to buck the very system on which they now depend.
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Unconventional Cylinders Many inventors attempted to buck the system by making alterations to existing machinery.
thousand
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Sure, a kid can make several thousand bucks a week, more even.
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A thousand bucks bonus I gave you this week, mothafucka!
trend
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Electricity shares bucked the trend and rallied, but water sprang a few leaks.
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But water shares bucked the trend and, as usual, were a haven in times of trouble.
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Some tech issues bucked the selling trend .
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The shares bucked the market trend , rising one penny to 491p.
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Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp. bucked the trend , gaining 3 3 / 4 to 77 1 / 4.
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Cider is bucking the national trend ... beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period.
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Dallas and Houston also bucked the trend .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Attempts to buck that system would end in the courtrooms or, as likely, unemployment.
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But water shares bucked the trend and, as usual, were a haven in times of trouble.
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Dallas and Houston also bucked the trend.
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Governors rarely buck their chairman and directly reject his recommendations.
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Last year it took 32 % of the mobile phone market and is looking to buck the worldwide trend.
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Natural rebels, backed up with the guts it takes to buck the system.
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Some tech issues bucked the selling trend.