gunbuck

English

Etymology

Compound of gun +‎ buck.

Verb

gunbuck (third-person singular simple present gunbucks, present participle gunbucking, simple past and past participle gunbucked)

1. (MLE, slang) To hit someone in the head with a pistol; to pistol-whip.
   • 2019 May 17, Digga D ft. Sav'O (lyrics and music), “Imagine”‎^[1]:

     I done him like Max done my man in Shottas / and gunbuck man with the strap

   • 2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 253:

     Couple seats down there’s three black akhis — on this Muslim gang ting — rocking grey prison tracksuits, one of them with a massive pink gash down the side of his face, raw, fresh from being gunbucked by armed police.

References

• Jonathon Green (2024) “gunbuck v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Further reading

• “gunbuck”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.