"buck wild" meaning in English

See buck wild in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: En-au-buck wild.ogg [Australia] Forms: more buck wild [comparative], most buck wild [superlative]
Etymology: From the aggressive state of bucks during mating season. Head templates: {{en-adj}} buck wild (comparative more buck wild, superlative most buck wild)
  1. (Southern US, slang) Crazy, unrestrained, uncontrolled. Tags: Southern-US, slang Related terms: hyphy, crunk
    Sense id: en-buck_wild-en-adj-u0TpsTb8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Southern US English

Download JSON data for buck wild meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "From the aggressive state of bucks during mating season.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more buck wild",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most buck wild",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "buck wild (comparative more buck wild, superlative most buck wild)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Southern US English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Zane, Addicted, Atria Books, published 2003, page 190",
          "text": "The dancer was buck wild, and all the old, beer-bellied men were clapping and sticking money in the waistline of her sheer-leg pants.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Blu Cantrell, “Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)”, in So Blu",
          "text": "Hey ladies, when your man wanna get buck wild, just go back and hit 'em up style / Put your hands on his cash and spend it to the last dime for all the hard times",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Russell Peters, Call Me Russell, Doubleday Canada, page 150",
          "text": "We had a great time that night, when the DJ at Pacha NYC found out that Mel was in the house, he played \"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It).\" Mel's girlfriend really went buck wild when they played it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Longmont Potion Castle, Longmont Potion Castle 19, DU Records",
          "text": "Talkin' 'bout your flipchild, he buckwild; talkin' 'bout your stepchild, he buckwild.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Crazy, unrestrained, uncontrolled."
      ],
      "id": "en-buck_wild-en-adj-u0TpsTb8",
      "links": [
        [
          "Crazy",
          "crazy"
        ],
        [
          "unrestrained",
          "unrestrained"
        ],
        [
          "uncontrolled",
          "uncontrolled"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US, slang) Crazy, unrestrained, uncontrolled."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hyphy"
        },
        {
          "word": "crunk"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-buck wild.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0c/En-au-buck_wild.ogg/En-au-buck_wild.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/En-au-buck_wild.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "buck wild"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the aggressive state of bucks during mating season.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more buck wild",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most buck wild",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "buck wild (comparative more buck wild, superlative most buck wild)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hyphy"
    },
    {
      "word": "crunk"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Southern US English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Zane, Addicted, Atria Books, published 2003, page 190",
          "text": "The dancer was buck wild, and all the old, beer-bellied men were clapping and sticking money in the waistline of her sheer-leg pants.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Blu Cantrell, “Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)”, in So Blu",
          "text": "Hey ladies, when your man wanna get buck wild, just go back and hit 'em up style / Put your hands on his cash and spend it to the last dime for all the hard times",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Russell Peters, Call Me Russell, Doubleday Canada, page 150",
          "text": "We had a great time that night, when the DJ at Pacha NYC found out that Mel was in the house, he played \"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It).\" Mel's girlfriend really went buck wild when they played it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Longmont Potion Castle, Longmont Potion Castle 19, DU Records",
          "text": "Talkin' 'bout your flipchild, he buckwild; talkin' 'bout your stepchild, he buckwild.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Crazy, unrestrained, uncontrolled."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Crazy",
          "crazy"
        ],
        [
          "unrestrained",
          "unrestrained"
        ],
        [
          "uncontrolled",
          "uncontrolled"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US, slang) Crazy, unrestrained, uncontrolled."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-buck wild.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0c/En-au-buck_wild.ogg/En-au-buck_wild.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/En-au-buck_wild.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "buck wild"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.