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bucky

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈbʌki//

A gun.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA gun.

    Like for a gun, you could say a gat but that's quite an old term. Most young people now would say stralley, a tool or a bucky.

Etymology

From buckshot.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of BuckyinformalAlternative form of Bucky (“a Potter-Bucky diaphragm”).

    There are two major types of bucky assemblies: reciprocating and recipromatic. The difference is that the reciprocating bucky moves at two different speeds during the exposure […]

Etymology

From Potter-Bucky diaphragm.

Forms

plural
buckies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).