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bucky

noun — 2 senses

bucky

nounalso spelled Bucky

/ˈbʌki/

Etymology From buckshot.

1

UK, Slang A 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:

Bucky

noun
1

Medicine, Sciences Abbreviation, Ellipsis, Informal Ellipsis 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:

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