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Buck private

noun, slang

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  1. 1
    A private soldier keen ("bucking") for promotion; an ambitious private. US, slang

    "Bedell Smith was a shopkeeper's son from Indiana who rose from buck private to general without the polish of West Point or a college degree."

  2. 2
    an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines wordnet

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