bucko

bucko

Buddy; friend. Despite the positive connotation of that definition, this word is often used to convey the speaker's irritation with someone. Hey bucko, how are you? And why would I listen to you, bucko?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bucko

(ˈbəko)
n. friend; pal. (Also a term of address. Can also be used with a sneer to convey contempt.) Hey, bucko, come here a minute.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • call (oneself) a (something)
  • call yourself a teacher, friend, etc.?
  • come on, man
  • don't make me tell you again
  • all the best to (someone)
  • beat off
  • jag
  • wack
  • whank
References in periodicals archive
I had committed the cardinal sin of losing my sacred school underpants, and my buttocks were on fire from the beating the Bucko had given me.
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Through a rich series of detailed personal accounts about the meaning and practice of the sweat lodge, Bucko is able to establish in real life terms how ritual is a series of contentions over the right to determine and regulate tradition.
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Where some may see the emergence of nones as a narrative of religious decline, Bucko and McEntee see a process of renewal.
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We believe that the strategic investment announced today between Crowflight and Pala Investments will ensure the long term viability of the Bucko Mine.
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On the back of an eloquent Graham Taylor taking ten minutes to sportingly face his critics and explain away an embarrassing Black Country derby defeat, in bounced Bucko.
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'Bucko' continued: "Hearing the local media here, they felt that Belarussian teams had the tt upper hand on Irish clubs.
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"Bucko" Farragher, would weekly venerate the Blessed Sacrament.
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Raymond Bucko of Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, and Fr.
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Crowflight Minerals Commences Commercial Production
;JIMMY Fitzgerald's promising novice chaser Bucko needs all the persuasion J J O'Neill can throw at him to land a narrow victory in Wetherby's Clifford Chase from Peter Easterby's Jimbrook (A Brown).
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Wheeling drew within 2 on a Phil Bucko 3-pointer but could get not closer against Hersey's junior-laden lineup.
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