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buck ((1))
1
n.
a male North American Indian.
See also:
buck Indian
1800
 
(1927)
 
I . . . kept the woman to be disposed of in the season when the Peace River bucks look out for women, in the month of May.
1900
 
[They] were jostled in a . . . crowd of yelling, gun-firing bucks.
1957
 
. . . Sunday had married a buck and was now full of papoose.