buck

/bʌk/ noun [C]

Definition

MONEY US informal › a dollar (= US unit of money) : It cost me twenty bucks to get a new bike lock.

ANIMAL › a male rabbit or deer

(Definition of buck noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to do something that spoils someone's plans

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