Description : Why is a dollar called a "buck"?
Last Answer : answer:http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search[equal]buck&searchmode[equal]term says: buck Look up buck at Dictionary.com O.E. bucca male goat, from P.Gmc. *bukkon (cf. M.Du. boc, O.H.G. boc ... [J.W. Keller, Draw Poker, 1887] The fig, sense of shift responsibility is first recorded 1912.