bucky
/ˈbʌki/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname
name
A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "There are two major types of bucky assemblies: reciprocating and recipromatic. The difference is that the reciprocating bucky moves at two different speeds during the exposure […]"
- "The recipromatic Bucky differs from the manually cocked Bucky in that the grid travels in both directions across the table during the exposure."
Etymology
From buckshot.