Usually means: Resisting authority or control forcefully.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. bucking: Merriam-Webster
  2. bucking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bucking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bucking, bucking: Wordnik
  5. bucking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bucking: Wiktionary
  7. Bucking, bucking: Dictionary.com
  8. bucking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Bucking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Bucking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. bucking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Bucking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. bucking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. bucking: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Bucking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bucking: Legal dictionary
  2. bucking: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bucking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bucking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bucking: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bucking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bucking: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bucking)

noun:  The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
noun:  The liquid used in this process.
noun:  A washing.
noun:  The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
noun:  (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
noun:  The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.

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