gunbuck

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verb

To hit someone in the head with a pistol; to pistol-whip.

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Meanings

verbgunbuck (third-person singular simple present gunbucks, present participle gunbucking, simple past and past participle gunbucked)

present singular third person gunbucks · participle present gunbucking · participle past gunbucked · past gunbucked

  1. Multicultural London EnglishslangTo hit someone in the head with a pistol; to pistol-whip.

    I done him like Max done my man in Shottas / and gunbuck man with the strap

    2019 May 17, Digga D ft. Sav'O, “Imagine”
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    Couple seats down there’s three black akhis — on this Muslim gang ting — rocking grey prison tracksuits, one of them with a massive pink gash down the side of his face, raw, fresh from being gunbucked by armed police.

    2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 253

Origin

Compound of gun + buck.

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APA

gunbuck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunbuck

MLA

“gunbuck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunbuck. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gunbuck,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunbuck.

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