Greenback vs. Buck — What's the Difference?

The United States dollar.

A male deer.

A note of US currency.

The male of various other mammals, such as antelopes, kangaroos, mice, or rabbits.

(US) Any bill that is legal tender in the US (originally printed with green and black ink) issued by the Federal Reserve.

Antelope considered as a group

(historical) A unit of American currency issued during the Civil War by the Treasury Department.

A robust or high-spirited young man.

(surfing) A wave that has not yet begun to break.

A fop.

One of the legal tender notes of the United States; a note of paper currency of the United States; - first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.

(Offensive) A Native American or black man.

A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank);

An act or instance of bucking

Buckskin.

Bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.

A sawhorse or sawbuck.

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

(Informal) A dollar.

(Informal) An amount of money

A large round amount of currency, especially a hundred dollars.

A hundred of some other units, especially miles per hour or pounds

(Games) A counter or marker formerly passed from one poker player to another to indicate an obligation, especially one's turn to deal.

(Informal) Obligation to account for something; responsibility

To leap upward while arching the back

To charge with the head lowered; butt.

To make sudden jerky movements; jolt

To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.

(Informal) To strive with determination

To throw or toss by bucking

To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against

(Football) To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.

To butt against with the head.

To pass (a task or duty) to another, especially so as to avoid responsibility

Of the lowest rank in a specified military category

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

(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

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

A fop or dandy.

A black or Native American man.

A unit of a particular currency

A dollar (one hundred cents).

A rand (currency unit).

A euro.

Money.

(finance) One million dollars.

One hundred.

Clipping of buckshot

An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.

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

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

A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

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

(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.

Synonym of buck dance.

Synonym of mule

A kind of large marble in children's games.

(Scotland) The beech tree.

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

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.

(intransitive) To bend; buckle.

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.

To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

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 resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

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

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.

(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.

(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter

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

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

(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

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

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

A male Indian or negro.

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

The beech tree.

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.

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

To break up or pulverize, as ores.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; - said of a vicious horse or mule.

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in 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.

A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

To strive with determination;

Resist;

Move quickly and violently;

Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;

Of the lowest rank in a category;