BUCK UP Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

buck up

verb

Definition of buck up next

as in to brighten

to become glad or hopeful buck up, kids, it's not so bad as you're making it out to be

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as in to encourage

to fill with courage or strength of purpose a surprise presidential visit to buck up the troops

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Examples of buck up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The officials were also trying to buck up their own staff. —

Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023 Marrying the wrong woman and then, instead of bucking up and withstanding it or bucking up and ending things, carrying on a years-long affair that made miseries of multiple lives. —

Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 5 May 2023 Back in 1922, Bruyere had bucked up a despondent Howard Carter when the Englishman was about to abandon his long search for the tomb of Tutankhamen. —

Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023 So just buck up and write the check this year. —

Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021 See all Example Sentences for buck up

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