Where did this term come from?

Question

How did people start using the term "bucks" for dollars. Is there some reason behind it or is it some random thing that got started? Thank you!!!

Answer 1

It started back with the first settlers to this country. Often, trappers would trade their pelts ( or hides or furs) to the people in the stores for the goods that they needed. Pretty much the most valuable of these was the hide of a male deer - being large and thus more leather could be gotten out of it or it would cover a bigger person for warmth. These were called 'buckskins' and soon, just ' bucks' and they were equal pretty much to money. You could come in to a general store and spend a few 'buckskins' and get some of the supplies you would need when you headed back out to the mountains to do more trapping. So , you'd spend some 'bucks'. Get it? Kind of a fun thing to learn word origins, isn't it? I love it; I looked that one up in High School for a paper.
Glad I could help.

Answer 2

Buck may refer to any of the following:

* The male of various species of animal, including:
o some species of deer — see also blackbuck
o rabbits
o Tyrannosaurus rex (this use of the term was first used in the Jurassic Park series and is currently gaining popularity)
* A slang term for:
o a man (usually a young, sexually adventurous one)
o a dollar (particularly in the United States and Canada)
o a repetition of an old joke, story, or fact, especially by email
* A marker or button that indicates the dealer in the card game Poker
* Buck, the main character in The Call of the Wild

* Pearl S. Buck was an American novelist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature

* Buck Rogers is a science fiction hero from the 1930s

In the plural:

* Bucks County, Pennsylvania
* Bucks. may also be used as the short form of the county of Buckinghamshire, in England.
* Bucks is also a township in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
* Bucks fizz is a cocktail
* Bucks Fizz is one or more bands

Answer 3

Lots of speculation, no firm conclusions. Next time we start a language we have to keep better notes. The leading theory at the moment is that buck comes from an old practice in poker. Evidently in the 19th century frontier card players were so thick they couldn't remember whose turn it was to deal from one hand to the next. So they placed a counter or token in front of the dealer du jour. This token was called a buck, since it was commonly a buck knife, whose handle was made of buck horn. When the time came for the dealer to surrender the job to someone new, he (you saw this coming) 'passed the buck' to the new guy. Uh-huh. A more plausible theory is that buck is short for buckskin, a common medium of exchange in trading with the Indians. As early as 1748 we have people writing, 'Every cask of Whiskey shall be sold to you (Indians) for 5 Bucks.' The transition to dollars seems only natural.

Answer 4

When a buckskin was worth one dollar, a dollar was also called buck.

Answer 5

From buckskins worth a dollar.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Probably some random thing. This is out there, but maybe it comes from when furs were traded as a valuable commodity. So many buck-skins might equal so many dollars. Maybe early American currency had pictures of bucks on them? idk

Answer 8

Don't know, but I wish the term 'the buck stops here' was true for me. My bucks talk, they say 'Goodbye'.

Answer 9

People would trade buckskins when they had no dollars. A buckskin was worth a dollar.
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Answer 10

Buckles