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Buck
1. (American) a dollar. A buckhorn knife handle was used apparently as a counter in 19th-century card games and 'buck-skins' were earlier traded and used as a unit of exchange in North America.
2. a young male gang member. A term adopted by British black youth and foot- ball hooligans from the street gangs of the USA, who themselves appropriated a word applied to young Red Indian braves.
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