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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]killbuck (plural killbucks)
- (obsolete) A butcher.
- (obsolete, figuratively) A violent person.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1896) “killbuck”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume IV, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 106.