Definition of "young buck" []

• An adventurous or high-spirited young man. (noun)

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• "That young buck was White men forced to live east of the mountains, all crammed into the old towns with all their lawyers and professors and hightoned people who never gave you room to breathe."
• "He looks like a stout young buck and the girls will feel safer when they have such a burly young fellow to keep off the boogers."
• "The driver was a young man of three-or four-and-twenty, with a cigar between his teeth; wearing a dandy cap, drab jacket, breeches of the same hue, white neckcloth, stick-up collar, and brown driving-gloves -- in short, he was the handsome, horsey young buck who had visited Joan a week or two before to get her answer about Tess."