A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.
Used in a Sentence
bucky
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bucky.
Editorial note
Buckminster Fuller It turns out Bucky was a lot more than the man who invented Bucky Balls, this book was written in 1971 and is still incredibly accurate.
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Definitions4
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Quick take
A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of bucky gathered in one view.
A surname
(British, slang) A gun.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bucky.
noun
A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.
noun
A surname
noun
(British, slang) A gun.
noun
(medicine, informal) Alternative form of Bucky (“a Potter-Bucky diaphragm”). [A surname]
Example sentences
Buckminster Fuller It turns out Bucky was a lot more than the man who invented Bucky Balls, this book was written in 1971 and is still incredibly accurate.
Reminds me of this great story from Bucky Fuller: You Do Not Belong to You.
Just in recent years Bucky Barnes and the Falcon has all taken up the mantle.
I always wondered if we would be able to make vacuum filled bucky balls out of carbon at some point.
I would not mind soft-reboots such as Kate Bishop Hawkeye, Bucky Barnes Captain America, Dick Grayson Batman, or even Miles Morales Spider-Man.
TL;DR: The Lispm's bucky keyboard simply extended existing practice.
The way that Bucky Balls was abused was insane.
Showing them Bucky Fuller's dymaxion map is always fun.
They were also far superior to the bucky ball set we had.
I think you and Bucky are more in agreement than you realize.
(n.b., it should allow adding as many bucky bits as a keyboard developer wants).
I think we are moving toward an economy like what Bucky envisioned, where there may be fewer jobs, but many more people find their true work.
Quote examples
The big issue is that the IBM layout is Ctrl-Alt, whereas the Lisp Machine was [too many other "bucky bits"]-Meta-Ctrl.
The title of this submission: "First phase of restorating the 'Bucky' dome is complete" The title of the linked article: "First phase in restoring Bucky Dome complete" "Restorating"?
"Geodesic spheres (structures of triangular components arranged to make a sphere) become stronger as they become bigger, due to how they distribute stress over their surfaces." I happened upon some Bucky Fuller stuff recently, and wondered just how large geodesic spheres have been made...
As for reading, a few things popped into my head in no particular order: The Greatest Salesman in the World, by Og Mandino Emerson's Essays, particularly "Self Reliance" Biographies of people like James Clerk Maxwell and Tesla If, by Kipling Any of Bucky Fuller's books And really, just look around at what people are doing in our industry.
Proper noun examples
Bucky isn't suggesting that people go home and drink beer and watch TV for the rest of their lives.
Bucky's warm and uplifting letter arrived about six months after I first showed him my small sculpture.
Bucky identified ephemeralization as a key technological trend over 70 years ago.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use bucky in a sentence?
Buckminster Fuller It turns out Bucky was a lot more than the man who invented Bucky Balls, this book was written in 1971 and is still incredibly accurate.
What does bucky mean?
A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.
What part of speech is bucky?
bucky is commonly used as noun.