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Buck private   /bək prˈaɪvət/   Listen
Buck private

noun
1.
An enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines.  Synonyms: common soldier, private.






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"Buck private" Quotes from Famous Books



... no reply to this reprimand, but simply stood at attention, though his black, weazened face worked and his lips trembled. It was the first time since he was a buck private that he had been spoken to in such a manner. For the first time, the yoke of discipline galled him. The bitterness of his inferiority and servitude was as wormwood within him. The harsh injustice of such treatment in this, his ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various



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