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bucker

[buhk-er] / ˈbʌk ər /


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“When you’re riding a bull, you never know if you’re really getting a bucker or one that’s a little bit more easygoing,” Jinkins said in an interview.

From Seattle Times Jan. 7, 2024

And the bucker basically helps clean up after the brush is cut down.

From Slate Jul. 26, 2021

“I kicked that bucker crazy, now I’m laid-back lazy,” the Montanan writes in his poem “Riding Double-Wild.”

From Reuters Jan. 31, 2015

The calf looked promising at first, but proved to be a halfhearted bucker.

From The New Yorker Dec. 1, 2014

“You ain’t no skinner. They’s no call for a bucker to come into the barn at all. You ain’t no skinner. You ain’t got nothing to do with the horses.”

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck




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