bucky

See also: Bucky

English

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  • Rhymes: -ʌki

Etymology 1

From buckshot

Noun

bucky (plural buckies)

  1. (British, slang) A gun.
    • 2011 October 21, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang‎, 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

Clipping of Potter-Bucky diaphragm

Noun

bucky (plural buckies)

  1. (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 […]

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