See buckhorse on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "After a celebrated \"bruiser\" of the same name, said to have allowed anybody to strike him on the side of the face for a small sum of money.",
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"ref": "1870, George Musgrave Musgrave, A Ramble Into Brittany (volume 1, page 80)",
"text": "[…] the hands of the same exalted young lady being also well calculated to give any man such a 'buckhorse' as would have sent him whirling round the presence-chamber […]"
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"A smart blow or box on the ear."
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"(UK, slang, obsolete) A smart blow or box on the ear."
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