bucky

plural buckies

1. UKslangA 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.

   2011 October 21, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Bloomsbury Publishing

plural buckies

1. alternativeinformalmedicineAlternative 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 […]

   2003, Stephen S. Hiss, Understanding Radiography, 4th edition, page 274

1. A surname

plural Buckies

1. abbreviationellipsisinformalmedicineEllipsis of Potter-Bucky diaphragm.

   The recipromatic Bucky differs from the manually cocked Bucky in that the grid travels in both directions across the table during the exposure.

   1960, Charles A. Jacobi, Donald E. Hagen, X-ray Technology, page 74

1. A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.

1. alternativeslangAlternative form of Buckie (“Buckfast Tonic Wine”).