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It is more fun to ask there that googling it:
What is the origin of the word "bucks"? I was thinking maybe greenbacks, but probably not. BTW in Russian (or in Belorussian) slang you may hear "baksi/baxi".
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Back in the day people paid with bunnies.
A bunny was quickly called a "bugs" as in "Bugs Bunny" (yes, Bugs Bunny is older than the dollar!).
Of course the bunnies were traded for dollars.
Over time "bugs" became "bucks" as to not confuse a dollar with an actual bug.
Relating to the word "bug", the software term bug also comes from Bugs Bunny!
Although there's a strong rumor about it coming from actual bugs which would sit on the hardware and get fried it actually refers to Bugs Bunny who was really trolling Elmer Fudd (a hunter, why do you think we go "hunting for bugs"?).
Since software "bugs" are trolling developers and there's no greater troll than Bugs Bunny it makes perfect sense.
A quick Google would've told you the same 
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Do male deer have buck teeth?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Do male deer have buck teeth?
 <-- get it?
Which cost more Beer Nuts or Deer Nuts?
Beer Nuts because Deer Nuts are under a buck.
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I can think of one greater troll right now!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I male rabbit is called a buck (just like the deer).
I think we should go back to using bunnies... it would be easier to make your money multiple
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You learn something new every day.
I would dispute that this is not it however.
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megaadam wrote: "baksi/baxi"
Wouldn't that be more like "tip" or "bribe" like you'll hear in most middle east countries:
Baksheesh - Wikipedia
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Good question, I went to ask Buck Dharma, who I found sharpening a Buck knife he was gonna use to skin a buck he'd just shot. He passed the buck by claiming not to know, nevertheless I offered him a buck or two for his time, but he declined, as he is one to buck the trends. The only positive that came out of the meeting was that neither of us was buck naked.
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Buck-off!
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Buck you too! 
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megaadam wrote:
What is the origin of the word "bucks"?
In the context of money? I had always heard it to be slang for a $1 note, where as "sawbuck" was slang for a $10 note. Since 1 is a portion of 10, such is the case that buck is a portion of sawbuck.
I'm going back to sleep now.
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David Crow wrote: I had always heard it to be slang for a $1 note
What does that make of Starbucks? You can't get an actual coffee for just $1.
Hypothesis:
The * character (asterisk) is also known as "star" (we all say * . * is star-dot-star, not asterisk-dot-asterisk), and us developers know that "*" is a placeholder for "all".
Thus, Starbucks is after all your money.
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Thats why its 'Starbucks' - not Starbuck.
They tried Star-lotsa-bucks but it didn't focus group test very well.
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Well, if "dollar" stems from "thaler", then "buck" could stem from "buch".
Thaler - Wikipedia[^]
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It is derived from the Dutch word "buk" which means stoop, so it means that the lower you stoop the more bucks you will have.
As you probably know also Wall street was a name first "coined" by the Dutch. 
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RickZeeland wrote: As you probably know also Wall street was a name first "coined" by the Dutch.
Yes. They named it after me.
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And your nickname is The wolf of ... 
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Wolf?
Naw, I'm a pig -- 2,000,000,000 Asians can't all be wrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...If pets had wallets[^]
Loyalty cards. Yep, that one I believe. 
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That just confirms what I always said (I'm sure someone else said it first):
- Dogs have owners.
- Cats have staff.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: - Cats have staff.
I've always objected to that line, because I can't imagine cats paying for anything.
Cats have clients.
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Perhaps, "Cats have slaves" is more accurate.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dunno about cats having loyalty cards.
Fake security passes, more like.
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Yeah, the loyalty is all one way!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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