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Bucks
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bucks 'Bucks
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
en ʌks 1
Proper noun
en Buckinghamshire in postal addresses.
Derived terms
en Bucks County South Bucks
See also
en Bucks Green
Etymology 2
Probably an altered spelling of en de Buchs or a patronymic form of en Buck.
Proper noun
es
en German.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Bucks is the 40432nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 541 individuals. Bucks is most common among White (86.88%) individuals.
Further reading
Etymology 3
Proper noun
en 'Bucks Starbucks.
en Matthew Paul Turner The Life of a Missionary The Coffeehouse Gospel: Sharing Your Faith in Everyday Conversation Lake Mary, Fla. Relevant Books 2004 57 https://archive.org/details/coffeehousegospe0000turn/page/57/mode/1up 0-9746942-8-2 As cliché as it might seem, Starbucks is one of my favorite places to strike up conversations with random strangers. (Why do you think this book is called The Coffeehouse Gospel?) I’ve met some of the most interesting people while sitting, reading, writing, and drinking at “Bucks.”
en Hideo Furukawa David Boyd Chronicle: 2000 Slow Boat: A Slow Boat to China RMX London w:Pushkin Press 2017 114–115 https://archive.org/details/slowboatslowboat0000furu/page/114/mode/1up 978 1 782273 28 8 What led these three Starbucks drinkers to commit murder? Back to the café that links them all. / “OK, OK—what about Starbucks?” I ask. “Guilty?” / “Wait, what’s the charge?” / “Crimes against Tokyo, I guess.” / “Not guilty. Got to say, I think Bucks has done more good than evil…” “Starbucks set us free…” / “Wait, from what?” / “From life’s unwritten rules. Like, suck it up, deal with it. All that. Now you can go to Bucks… Enjoy a caramel macchiato…” / “Yeah yeah yeah. The killers smelt the coffee—and woke up. Like, ‘I should end that fucking liar’s life. Fuck it, his wife had it coming, too…’” / “I guess that’s one kind of enlightenment…”
en Arthur Smyth 32 https://books.google.com/books?id=MNe_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 Duet Quartet [Bloomington, Ind.] w:Xlibris 2019 978-1-7960-7168-9 Student baristas quit for school–year, desperate folk / No experience, so two weeks’ training at Bucks / no pay / Ten eight-hour shifts, odd hours / odd days / trying to stay out of / everyone’s way / Carle Place, I know
en Tijan Bailey https://books.google.com/books?id=Ki8rEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT138 26 The Damaged An Insiders Novel 2 New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Griffin 2022 9781250210791 You want me to grab you coffee? I was going to stop at Bucks since it’s a treat day for us.
Plautdietsch
Noun
m Buckse
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