Meanings
bucker1
nounbucker (plural buckers)
plural buckers
- A horse or other animal that bucks.
- artsA holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
- businessOne who bucks ore.
- businessA broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
Bucker2
Origin
Bucker · proper noun
- GermanBücker
- EnglishBucker
Variant of Booker or borrowed from German Bücker.
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Rhymes with bucker
tuckerZuckerpluckerpuckerSmuckersuccourchuckerduckerStuckerhuckeruckerchukkercluckerknuckersaltchuckershucker
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APA
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MLA
“bucker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucker. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bucker,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucker.
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