Definition of big buck
: a large sum of money
—usually used in pluralsigned a contract for big bucks
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Synonyms & Antonyms for big buck
Synonyms
- bomb
- [British],
- boodle,
- bundle,
- earth,
- fortune,
- king's ransom,
- megabucks,
- mint,
- packet
- [chiefly British],
- pile,
- wad
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Examples of big buck in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web On November 5, a young Louisiana hunter with just a couple hours to hunt before starting work, climbed into a stand in an area where trail cams had captured a big buck just days before.
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Doug Howlett, Outdoor Life, "Louisiana Crossbow Giant Buck," 8 Dec. 2020 Hunting pressure and an unruly coyote population limited the big buck’s movement.
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Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, "The Best Bucks of November 2020," 8 Dec. 2020 After just 15 minutes in the stand, Doyle saw a big buck get up out of his bed facing away from him.
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Outdoor Life, "Cracking the Mystery Behind Missouri’s Year of the Giant Buck," 15 Dec. 2020 The next morning, the big buck came but caught Cramer’s scent.
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Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, "The Best Bucks of November 2020," 8 Dec. 2020 Schmit hit the horns again and the big buck came trotting in to 25 yards, where the hunter stopped him and made a good shot.
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Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, "The Best Bucks of October 2020," 12 Nov. 2020 Are these sophisticated optics worth the investment of time and patience required to download a mobile app, input very precise ballistics data, and then trust the software to make a shot when a big buck is on the line?
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Andrew Mckean, Outdoor Life, "Are Smart Scopes the Hunting Tool of the Future or Shortcuts to Close-Enough Accuracy?," 24 Sep. 2020 Five months later, when the big buck pulled his disappearing act, my mind raced to that bur oak.
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Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, "How to Hunt Whitetail Deer on a Staging Area," 21 Sep. 2020 But calling can, and does, work from time to time and if a big buck is just out of range there’s no reason not to give it a shot.
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Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, "The 7 Biggest Myths of Hunting Early-Season Deer," 3 Aug. 2020
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