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See also: Bucky
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌki
Etymology 1
[edit]From buckshot.
Noun
[edit]bucky (plural buckies)
- (British, slang) A gun.
- 2011 October 21, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang[1], Bloomsbury Publishing:
- 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.
Etymology 2
[edit]Clipping of Potter-Bucky diaphragm
Noun
[edit]bucky (plural buckies)
- (medicine, informal) Alternative form of Bucky (“a Potter-Bucky diaphragm”)
- 2003, Stephen S. Hiss, Understanding Radiography, 4th edition, page 274:
- 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 […]