Definition of buckle
buckle
verb - intransitive
- to fail or err due to pressure.
I knew she would buckle at the competition.
We've lost our confidence this year. I think we're going to buckle on Friday.
- See more words with the same meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail.
Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Wai-Kheong Law from Oakville, ON, Canada on Nov 08 2002.
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Other terms relating to 'to lose, be defeated, fail': | |
| Definitions include: to make a futile attempt. | |
| Definitions include: a defeat. | |
| Definitions include: to experience traumatic physical contact with a stationary object. | |
| Definitions include: See own. | |
| Definitions include: in "professional wrestling," a wrestler who intentionally loses to improve the image of the winner. | |
| Definitions include: to fail | |
| Definitions include: to completely fail a task. | |
| Definitions include: a loser. | |
| Definitions include: to stop working. | |
| Definitions include: to fail. | |
| Definitions include: as a greeting, a rhetorical question asking about what's happening. | |
| Definitions include: to be severely defeated. | |
| Definitions include: to perform terribly. | |
| Definitions include: a "professional wrestler" who loses matches so as to build up a featured wrestler's win/loss record and crowd appeal. | |
| Definitions include: See school. | |
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Other terms relating to 'buckle': | |
| Definitions include: Women who kiss up to rodeo champions in order to have sex with them. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is attracted only, mostly, or especially to rodeo cowboys. | |
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