Citations:buck's night

English citations of buck's night

Noun: "(Australian) a party held for a man who is about to be married"

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• 1989 — Valerie Parv, Crocodile Creek, Harlequin (1989), →ISBN, page 45:

  Over his shoulder, he added, 'At your buck's night, remind me to tell you a few things about your bride-to-be.'

• 1989 — Brian Toohey & William Pinwill, Oyster: The Story of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, W. Heinemann Australia (1989), →ISBN, page 1229:

  Team members were given party masks to conceal their identities and to maintain a cover story that they were escorting John on his buck's night.

• 1994 — Amanda Midlam, Muriel's Wedding, Penguin (1994), →ISBN, page 1:

  The bride's mother fanned her perspiring face with a serviette and the best man, who had been drinking solidly since the buck's night, threw up noisily behind a clump of lantana in the backyard.

• 2001 — Joan Kilby, The Second Promise, Harlequin (2001), →ISBN, page 81:

  But last night he'd gone to the Surf Lifesaving Club for a beer, sort of an impromptu, single-handed buck's night. He'd had the idea he would test his reaction to relinquishing his bachelorhood.

• 2004 — Margaret Simons, "Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders", Quarterly Essay, Issue 15, page 47:

  Latham said: "There is no video — it was a buck's night, which was tame enough. It was organised by other people. I turned up. I had a buck's night for the first marriage, and believe you me, I didn't see the need for it the second time around. […]

• 2005 — Joy Greedy, In the Shade of the Tembusu Tree, Zeus Publications (2005), →ISBN, page 297:

  They played golf and had a buck's night that ended with Alex walking home naked, […]

• 2006 — Murray Engleheart, AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band, Harper Entertainment (2008), →ISBN, page 257:

  Fort Arnott, it was a big week. He was soon to be married and a buck's night was held in his honour.

• 2006 — Melanie Milburne, The Greek's Convenient Wife, Harlequin (2006), →ISBN, page 59:

  'Oh, silly me.' She gave a vacuous giggle. 'It's your buck's night, isn't it?'

• 2007 — Catherine Deveny, It's Not My Faulty They Print Them, Black Inc. (2007), →ISBN, page 21:

  But it's not just girls, but guys, too, who are disturbed that Australian television has descended into a full-on buck's night in Moe.

• 2007 — Mark Finnane, JV Barry: A Life, UNSW Press (2007), →ISBN, page 59:

  It is clear that he was reluctant to expose himself to the jollity of a buck's night, but the agonising work of negotiating a marriage across denominational lines was the more compelling reason for Jack keeping his wedding plans quiet.

• 2007 — Tony Wright, Brant Webb, & Todd Russell, Bad Ground: Inside the Beaconsfield Mine Rescue, Pier 9 (2007), →ISBN, page 36:

  After the buck's night at the Beauty Point Hotel was called off early because a few of the boys had got to brawling, […]

• 2009 — Michael Bachelard, Behind the Exclusive Brethren, Scribe Publications (2009), →ISBN, page 168:

  Later, the boy was taken to another buck's night and then, at 3.00 am, was driven to Melbourne, put on a plane, and sent to Perth.

• 2009 — Tracy Crisp, Black Dust Dancing, Wakefield Press (2009), →ISBN, page 243:

  Shep's buck's night is already planned.

• 2009 — Mike Gatto (with Tom Noble), I, Mike Gatto, Victory Books (2010), →ISBN, page 36:

  My buck's night was at a nightclub in St Kilda. We hired the top floor and I got extremely drunk.

• 2009 — Fiona McArthur, Pregnant Midwife: Father Needed, Harlequin (2009), →ISBN, page 58:

  We could have a barbecue pre-wedding party because Louisa has refused a hen's party and Ned laughed when Ben hesitantly offered a buck's night.

• 2010 — Ken Barker, Young Men Rise Up, Taylor Trade Publishing (2008), →ISBN, page 91:

  When he was just 16 he attended a buck's night and a work Christmas party, both of which featured female strippers.

• 2010 — Leigh Redhead, Thrill City, Allen & Unwin (2010), →ISBN, page 26:

  'Ever since you came back from his buck's night you've been acting strange.'

• 2011 — Tony Bilson, Insatiable: My Life in the Kitchen, Murdoch Books Australia (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered pages:

  It was Chris Haywood and Patrick Juillet who took me out the night before my wedding for a buck's night of which, thankfully for all of us, I have little recollection.

• 2011 — Mark A. Bruhwiller, From Seven Hills to the Seven Seas: A Memoir of a Boy Adrift, Balboa Press (2011), →ISBN, page 102:

  My best man, Joe, had to be held up by his wife during the ceremony because he was still smashed after our buck's night the evening before.

• 2012 — Kerry Greenwood, Forbidden Fruit, Poisoned Pen Press (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  You don't want to spend your whole life with a freely available picture of yourself vomiting over a dog at a buck's night, for instance, which is the one I am working on at present.