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Etymology 1
From buckshot
Noun
bucky (plural buckies)
- (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)
- (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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