buck up
verb7 senses
1
Idiomatic To become encouraged, reinvigorated, or cheerful; to summon one's courage or spirits; to pluck up courage.
- I realized I needed to buck up and tackle the problem head-on.
2
Idiomatic To encourage; to hearten.
- I knew I had to try and buck up the rest of my team as well.
3
Idiomatic To do better.
- You better buck up or you'll never make it.
5
Colloquial, Idiomatic To pass on to higher authority for resolution. See also pass the buck.
- He started bucking up everything to management when he didn't get a raise.
- He just bucked everything risky up to management.
1 more example
- Instead of dealing with the customer's complaint himself, he just bucked it up to his boss.
6
Obsolete To hurry up.
- 'Now' said Cameron, 'we must buck up; it's getting late. Now about the child, Boshy: she must come with us, you see.'1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), published 1980, page 141:
- Derived terms
- buck up one's ideas, buck up to