Bucks

Bucks may refer to:

Places
  • Bucks, Alabama, United States
  • Buckinghamshire, England, UK, after which the following are named:
  • Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Bucks Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States

In sports:

  • Milwaukee Bucks, a team in the National Basketball Association
  • Laredo Bucks, a team in the Central Hockey League
  • Michigan Bucks, a soccer team playing in the USL Premier Development League
  • Waterloo Bucks, a baseball team playing in the summer-collegiate Northwoods League
  • Nathan Buckley, retired Australian rules footballer
  • Ohio State Buckeyes ("the Bucks"), intercollegiate sports teams of the Ohio State University
Other
  • Buck's night, Australian term for bachelor party
  • Beta Upsilon Chi, a Christian fraternity that has adopted letters BYX, pronounced "bucks"
  • Buck's Club, London
  • Buck's Fizz (cocktail), an alcoholic mixed drink
  • Bucks Fizz (band), a United Kingdom band
  • Buckskin
  • United States dollar, American slang for dollars.

Famous quotes containing the word bucks:

    “I’m a very smart guy. I haven’t a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops ... I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you’ll think of me, I’ll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
    Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
    Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,
    Pounded on the table,
    Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
    Hard as they were able,”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    “To deny the need for comprehensive child care policies is to deny a reality—that there’s been a revolution in American life. Grandma doesn’t live next door anymore, Mom doesn’t work just because she’d like a few bucks for the sugar bowl.”
    —Editorial, The New York Times (September 6, 1983)