Antonyms for pass buck
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : buhk |
Phonetic Transcription : bÊŒk |
- abet
- absolve
- acquit
- aid
- applaud
- approve
- assist
- attract
- be honest
- clarify
- clear up
- commend
- compliment
- confront
- encounter
- encourage
- endorse
- enlighten
- entice
- exalt
- exculpate
- exonerate
- explain
- face
- fail
- fight
- fix
- flatter
- free
- help
- hold
- hold back
- invite
- keep
- laud
- lose
- maintain
- meet
- order
- persist
- praise
- receive
- refuse
- release
- remain
- retain
- sanction
- speak on
- stagnate
- stay
- support
- take
- take on
- tell truth
- thank
- withhold
Definition of pass buck
Origin :- "male deer," c.1300, earlier "male goat;" from Old English bucca "male goat," from Proto-Germanic *bukkon (cf. Old Saxon buck, Middle Dutch boc, Dutch bok, Old High German boc, German Bock, Old Norse bokkr), perhaps from a PIE root *bhugo (cf. Avestan buza "buck, goat," Armenian buc "lamb"), but some speculate that it is from a lost pre-Germanic language. Barnhart says Old English buc "male deer," listed in some sources, is a "ghost word or scribal error."
- Meaning "dollar" is 1856, American English, perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin, a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days, attested in this sense from 1748. Pass the buck is first recorded in the literal sense 1865, American English:
- The 'buck' is any inanimate object, usually knife or pencil, which is thrown into a jack pot and temporarily taken by the winner of the pot. Whenever the deal reaches the holder of the 'buck', a new jack pot must be made. [J.W. Keller, "Draw Poker," 1887]
- Perhaps originally especially a buck-handled knife. The figurative sense of "shift responsibility" is first recorded 1912. Buck private is recorded by 1870s, of uncertain signification.
- As in transfer : verb pass possession to
- As in blame : verb accuse; place responsibility
- As in pass the buck : verb pass responsibility on to another
- As in elude : verb avoid; escape
- As in equivocate : verb avoid an issue
- As in hedge : verb avoid, dodge
- His only thought was the dogged determination to reach and pass Buck.
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts of Lakeville High » by Leslie W. Quirk
Synonyms for pass buck
- admonish
- ascribe
- assign
- attribute
- baffle
- be beyond someone
- be noncommittal
- bear
- beat around the bush
- beg the question
- bilk
- blast
- blow hot and cold
- blow the whistle on
- bring
- carry
- cart
- cavil
- cede
- censure
- change
- charge
- chide
- circumvent
- climb all over
- cloud the issue
- con
- condemn
- confound
- consign
- convert
- convey
- cop a plea
- cop out
- cover up
- criticize
- deed
- delegate
- deliver
- denounce
- denunciate
- disapprove
- dislocate
- dispatch
- dispense
- displace
- disturb
- ditch
- dodge
- double
- double-talk
- duck
- elude
- equivocate
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- express
- express disapprobation
- falsify
- feed
- fence
- ferry
- fib
- find
- find fault with
- finger
- flee
- flip-flop
- fly
- foil
- forward
- frame
- frustrate
- fudge
- get around
- get away from
- get out of
- give
- give run around
- give the run around
- give the runaround
- give the slip
- give wide berth to
- hand
- hand over
- haul
- hedge
- hem and haw
- hold responsible
- impute
- indict
- jive
- jump all over
- jump down one's throat
- knock
- lay a bad trip on
- lay at one's door
- lay to
- let one have it
- lie
- lower the boom
- lug
- make over
- metamorphose
- mince words
- move
- not touch
- outrun
- outwit
- palter
- parry
- pass on
- pass the buck
- pass up
- point the finger
- post
- prevaricate
- provide
- pussyfoot
- puzzle
- quibble
- rap
- rebuke
- relay
- relegate
- relocate
- remove
- reprehend
- reproach
- reprove
- roast
- run around
- saddle
- sell
- send
- shift
- shilly-shally
- ship
- shirk
- shoulder
- shuck
- shuffle
- shun
- shy
- sidestep
- sign over
- sit on the fence
- skin
- slide out of
- stall
- stay shy of
- steer clear of
- stick it to
- stonewall
- stump
- supply
- tax
- taxi
- tell white lie
- temporize
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- thwart
- tote
- transfigure
- translate
- transmit
- transmogrify
- transmute
- transplant
- transport
- transpose
- turn over
- upbraid
- waffle
- weasel
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