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Peter Buck (mayor) (died 1625), English mayor and naval official; Peter Henry Buck or Te Rangi Hīroa (1877–1951), New Zealand doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist and museum director; Tim Buck (1891–1973), long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada; Tom Buck (1938–2020), American lawyer and ...
Buck, a horse in the film Home on the Range (2004) Buck, a main character in the video game 187 Ride or Die (2005) Buck, Tuck Turtle's cousin in the animated television series Wonder Pets (2006–2013) Buck, a weasel in the animated film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Buck, Arlo's triplet sibling in the animated film The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Buck Freeman (pitcher) (1896–1953), American MLB right-handed pitcher; Jerry Freeman (1879–1952), American MLB first baseman; Buck Jordan (1907–1993), American MLB player; Buck Leonard (1907–1997), American baseball player in the Negro leagues, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame; Buck Martinez (born 1948), American former MLB player ...
The English surname is credited by some unknown sources as being of Old English origin, either as a habitation surname derived from settlements named Buckley, or as an occupational surname from the Anglo-Saxon words Bucc and Leah, meaning goat and wood.
Arch "Beaver" Aplin. In 1982, founder Arch "Beaver" Aplin was a partner in the opening of a store in Clute, Texas, the first to bear the name "Buc-ee's".He formed the name Buc-ee's by combining his childhood nickname; the name of his Labrador Retriever, Buck; as well as the appeal of Ipana toothpaste's animated mascot, Bucky the beaver.
Buck Angel (left, with The Post’s Rikki Schlott) lived as a lesbian woman for 30 years before transitioning to a male. “I really believe that Lia Thomas and all this ‘trans women are women ...
The origins of the name are unknown, though the earliest recorded use is 1725 as "Welsh rabbit" (possibly ironic or jocular as the dish contains no rabbit); the earliest documented use of "Welsh rarebit" is in 1781. Variants include English rabbit, Scotch rabbit, buck rabbit, golden buck, and blushing bunny.
Buck passing, or passing the buck, or sometimes (playing) the blame game, is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own responsibility. It is often used to refer to a strategy in power politics whereby a state tries to get another state to deter or fight an aggressor state while it remains on the sidelines.