buck vs penny

buck

noun
  • Money. 

  • The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. 

  • A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. 

  • An uncastrated sheep, a ram. 

  • A rand (currency unit). 

  • A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. 

  • Size. 

  • A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad. 

  • A euro. 

  • Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”) 

  • One hundred. 

  • The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery. 

  • A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting. 

  • The beech tree. 

  • Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. 

  • One million dollars. 

  • The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part. 

  • Belly, breast, chest. 

  • A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man. 

  • A dollar (one hundred cents). 

verb
  • To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. 

  • To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against. 

  • To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner. 

  • To copulate, as bucks and does. 

  • To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. 

  • To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly. 

  • To break up or pulverize, as ores. 

  • To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees. 

  • To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. 

  • To fuck. 

  • To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking. 

  • To bend; buckle. 

  • To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood. 

  • To swell out. 

  • To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process. 

  • To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack. 

penny

noun
  • Money in general. 

  • In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d. 

  • In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p. 

  • A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d. 

  • In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin. 

  • In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢. 

  • In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. 

verb
  • To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket. 

  • During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink such that they must finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge. 

  • To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door. 

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