BUCKMeaning "dollar" is 1856, American English, perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin, a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days, attested in this sense from 1748.http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=buck&searchmode=term
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Meaning "dollar" is 1856, American English, perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin, a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days, attested in this sense from 1748.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=buck&searchmode=term
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