buck

dólar

Un dólar, en el habla informal.

En inglés sencillo: One dollar.

• It costs one buck.
• I paid twenty bucks for this shirt.
• Can you lend me a few bucks until Friday?

Sinónimos: dollar

Expresiones frecuentes: one buck, a buck each, a buck apiece

dinero, plata

Dinero, especialmente el que se gana o se espera ganar.

En inglés sencillo: Money, especially money someone earns or hopes to earn.

• He sells old furniture to make a buck.
• They were only interested in making a quick buck.
• She'll try any honest way to earn an extra buck.

Sinónimos: money, cash

Expresiones frecuentes: make a buck, a quick buck, a fast buck, earn a buck

ciervo macho, macho cabrío

Macho de un ciervo o de una cabra.

En inglés sencillo: A male deer or goat.

• A buck stood beside the trees.
• The buck lowered his antlers and turned towards us.
• The farmer keeps one buck with her female goats.

Sinónimos: stag

Antónimos: doe

Expresiones frecuentes: young buck, buck deer, buck goat, large buck

responsabilidad, culpa

Responsabilidad o culpa por un problema o una decisión, especialmente cuando alguien intenta pasársela a otra persona.

En inglés sencillo: Responsibility for a problem or decision, especially when someone tries to give it to another person.

• Don't pass the buck to me.
• The buck stops with whoever made the decision.
• Every department passed the buck when the project failed.

Cómo se usa: pass the buck to someone (The manager passed the buck to his assistant.); the buck stops with someone (The buck stops with the team leader.)

Sinónimos: responsibility, blame

Expresiones frecuentes: pass the buck, the buck stops, buck stops here

conejo macho, liebre macho

Macho de un conejo o de una liebre.

En inglés sencillo: A male rabbit or hare.

• This rabbit is a buck.
• Keep the buck in a separate hutch.
• The breeder chose a healthy buck for mating.

Sinónimos: male rabbit, male hare

Antónimos: doe

Expresiones frecuentes: rabbit buck, breeding buck, young buck, adult buck

macho

Macho de ciertos animales, como el hurón o el canguro.

En inglés sencillo: A male of certain other animals, such as a ferret or kangaroo.

• The keeper identified the kangaroo as a buck.
• A large buck led the group of kangaroos.
• The breeder recorded this male animal as a buck.

Sinónimos: male

Antónimos: doe

Expresiones frecuentes: kangaroo buck, adult buck, breeding buck

oponerse, resistir

Oponerse con fuerza a una norma, una decisión o una manera habitual de hacer las cosas.

En inglés sencillo: To strongly resist a rule, decision, or usual way of doing things.

• She refused to buck the system.
• Sales rose, bucking the general downward trend.
• He bucked against the board's decision to close the factory.

Cómo se usa: buck something (The company bucked the trend by hiring more staff.); buck against something (The workers bucked against the new rules.)

Sinónimos: resist, oppose, defy

Antónimos: obey, accept

Expresiones frecuentes: buck the trend, buck the system, buck convention, buck against something

corcovear, dar corcovos

Saltar bruscamente levantando el lomo, como un animal que puede hacer caer a quien lo monta.

En inglés sencillo: If an animal jumps sharply with its back raised, it may throw its rider off.

• The horse began to buck.
• A frightened pony bucked her off.
• The bull bucked wildly as the rider held on.

Cómo se usa: buck someone off (The horse bucked its rider off.)

Expresiones frecuentes: buck wildly, buck someone off, begin to buck