Bull vs. Buck: What's the Difference?

Bull and Buck Definitions
Bull
An adult male bovine mammal.
Buck
A male deer.
Bull
The uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle.
Buck
The male of various other mammals, such as antelopes, kangaroos, mice, or rabbits.
Bull
The adult male of certain other large animals, such as alligators, elephants, moose, or whales.
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Buck
Antelope considered as a group
A herd of buck.
Bull
An exceptionally large, strong, and aggressive person.
Buck
A robust or high-spirited young man.
Bull
An optimist, especially regarding business conditions.
Buck
A fop.
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Bull
A person who buys commodities or securities in anticipation of a rise in prices or who tries by speculative purchases to effect such a rise.
Buck
(Offensive) A Native American or black man.
Bull
(Slang) A police officer or detective.
Buck
An act or instance of bucking
A horse that unseated its rider on the first buck.
Bull
Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.
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Buck
Buckskin.
Bull
Insolent talk or behavior.
Buck
Bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.
Bull
An official document issued by the pope and sealed with a bulla.
Buck
A sawhorse or sawbuck.
Bull
The bulla used to seal such a document.
Buck
A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
Bull
A gross blunder in logical speech or expression.
Buck
(Informal) A dollar.
Bull
See Taurus.
Buck
(Informal) An amount of money
Working overtime to make an extra buck.
Bull
To push; force.
Buck
A large round amount of currency, especially a hundred dollars.
Bull
To push ahead or through forcefully
"He bulls through the press horde that encircles the car" (Scott Turow).
Buck
A hundred of some other units, especially miles per hour or pounds
Was doing a buck twenty out on the Interstate.
A boxer weighing in at a buck fifty.
Bull
Male.
Buck
(Games) A counter or marker formerly passed from one poker player to another to indicate an obligation, especially one's turn to deal.
Bull
Large and strong like a bull.
Buck
(Informal) Obligation to account for something; responsibility
Tried to pass the buck for the failure to his boss.
Bull
Characterized by rising prices
A bull market.
Buck
To leap upward while arching the back
The horse bucked in fright.
Bull
An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
Buck
To charge with the head lowered; butt.
Bull
Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
Buck
To make sudden jerky movements; jolt
The motor bucked and lurched before it finally ran smoothly.
Bull
A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
Buck
To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.
Bull
Any adult male bovine.
Buck
(Informal) To strive with determination
Bucking for a promotion.
Bull
An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
Buck
To throw or toss by bucking
Buck off a rider.
Bucked the packsaddle off its back.
Bull
A large, strong man.
Buck
To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against
“Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the country, is bucking the trend” (American Demographics).
Bull
(finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
Buck
(Football) To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.
Bull
(slang) A policeman.
Buck
To butt against with the head.
Bull
(US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
Buck
To pass (a task or duty) to another, especially so as to avoid responsibility
"We will see the stifling of initiative and the increased bucking of decisions to the top" (Winston Lord).
Bull
An elderly lesbian.
Buck
Of the lowest rank in a specified military category
A buck private.
A buck sergeant.
Bull
A crown coin; its value, {{5 shillings.}}
Buck
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
Bull
(UK) bullseye
Buck
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
Bull
The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
Buck
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
Bull
A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
Buck
A fop or dandy.
Bull
Clipping of bullshit
Buck
A black or Native American man.
Bull
A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
Buck
A unit of a particular currency
Bull
(obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
Buck
A dollar (one hundred cents).
Can I borrow five bucks?
Bull
A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
Buck
A rand (currency unit).
Bull
A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
Buck
A euro.
Bull
A lie.
Buck
Money.
Corporations will do anything to make a buck.
Bull
Nonsense.
Buck
(finance) One million dollars.
Bull
(obsolete) A bubble.
Buck
One hundred.
The police caught me driving a buck forty [140 miles per hour] on the freeway.
That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter [125 pounds].
Bull
Large and strong, like a bull.
Buck
Clipping of buckshot
He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.
Bull
(of large mammals) Adult male.
A bull elephant
Buck
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness.
Bull
(finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
Buck
The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
Bull
Stupid.
Buck
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
Bull
To force oneself (in a particular direction).
He bulled his way in.
Buck
A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
Bull
To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
Buck
A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
Bull
To mate with a cow or heifer.
Buck
(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.
Bull
To endeavour to raise the market price of.
To bull railroad bonds
Buck
Synonym of buck dance.
Bull
To endeavour to raise prices in.
To bull the market
Buck
Synonym of mule
Bull
To publish in a Papal bull
Buck
A kind of large marble in children's games.
Bull
To mock; to cheat.
Buck
(Scotland) The beech tree.
Bull
(intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
Buck
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
Bull
To polish boots to a high shine.
Buck
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Bull
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidæ); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
Buck
(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
Bull
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
Buck
(intransitive) To bend; buckle.
Bull
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun,And the bright Bull receives him.
Buck
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.
Bull
A ludicrously false statement; nonsense. Also used as an expletive.
Buck
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
Bull
A seal. See Bulla.
Buck
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.
Bull
A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses.
Buck
To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.
Bull
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic.
Buck
To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
Bull
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
Buck
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.
The plane bucked a strong headwind.
Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.
Bull
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
Buck
(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.
Bull
Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
Buck
(forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
Bull
A large and strong and heavyset man;
He was a bull of a man
A thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got
Buck
(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter
Bull
Obscene words for unacceptable behavior;
I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk
What he said was mostly bull
Buck
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
Bull
A serious and ludicrous blunder;
He made a bad bull of the assignment
Buck
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
Bull
Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Buck
(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
Bull
An investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
Buck
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
Bull
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
Buck
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Bull
The second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
Buck
The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
Bull
The center of a target
Buck
A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
The leading bucks of the day.
Bull
A formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
Buck
A male Indian or negro.
Bull
Mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
Buck
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
Bull
Push or force;
He bulled through his demands
Buck
The beech tree.
Bull
Try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
Buck
To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; - a process in bleaching.
Bull
Talk through one's hat;
The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it
Buck
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
Bull
Advance in price;
Stocks were bulling
Buck
To break up or pulverize, as ores.
Buck
To copulate, as bucks and does.
Buck
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.
Buck
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.
Buck
A gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
Buck
A piece of paper money worth one dollar
Buck
United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
Buck
A framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Buck
Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
Buck
To strive with determination;
John is bucking for a promotion
Buck
Resist;
Buck the trend
Buck
Move quickly and violently;
The car tore down the street
He came charging into my office
Buck
Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched;
The yung filly bucked
Buck
Of the lowest rank in a category;
A buck private