bucky
/B AH1 K IY0/noun
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(British, slang) A gun.
- 2
A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.
- 3
A surname
- 4
(medicine, informal) Alternative form of Bucky (“a Potter-Bucky diaphragm”). [A surname]
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(slang) Alternative form of Buckie (“Buckfast Tonic Wine”). [A coastal town in Moray council area, Scotland, originally in Banffshire (OS grid ref NJ4265).]
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(medicine, informal) Ellipsis of Potter-Bucky diaphragm. [(medicine) A grid of lead strips that can be repositioned to reduce visual artifacts on an X-ray caused by secondary radiation.]
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