Citations:buck's party

English citations of buck's party

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

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• 1971 — Australia: This Land - These People, Reader's Digest (1971), page 51:

  […] I see a teller struggling up the stairs carrying a ball and chain I know it's a buck's party and they never get in."

• 1972 — Peter Mathers, The Wort Papers, Cassell Australia (1972), →ISBN, page 271:

  On the Saturday night it was the buck's party for Robbie Stones.

• 1991 — Antonio Casella, The Sensualist, Hodder & Stoughton (1991), →ISBN, page 32:

  Like the time he went to a buck's party and didn't come home all night.

• 1994 — Chris Harkness, New Guinea: The Wahgi Impact, Robert Brown & Associates (1994), →ISBN, page 116:

  Danny Ottley was getting married on the following Saturday night and the town's men were attending a buck's party.

• 2001 — Clive Moore, Sunshine and Rainbows: The Development of Gay and Lesbian Culture in Queensland, University of Queensland Press (2001), →ISBN, page 139:

  All these activities which come under the title of mateship are basically homosexual in tone, e.g. doing a 'hambone' at a buck's party, […]

• 2004 — Margaret Simons, "Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders", Quarterly Essay, Issue 15, page 46:

  By Friday afternoon, the internet gossip site crikey.com.au became the first to go public, referring to "rumours of a potentially embarrassing videotape of Latham's buck's party ahead of his last wedding", […]

• 2006 — Patricia Easteal & Louise McOrmond-Plummer, Real Rape, Real Pain: Help for Women Sexually Assaulted by Male Partners, Hybrid Publishers (2006), →ISBN, page 447:

  This happened a couple of weeks ago at a buck's party and they said at the Gilmore clinic it's probably worse than any rape case they've ever seen.

• 2007 — Sally Graham, As Black from White, Seaview Press (2007), →ISBN, page 20:

  We attended a buck's party one night. It was booked into a hall, with several of our friends employed as the strippers.

• 2008 — Maureen Cashman, Charlie & Me in Val-Paradis, Read How You Want (2008), page 159:

  A buck's party with an inflated naked woman turned up and a table was set out for them outside near the car park, where they did rude things with the inflated woman and sang lewd, drunken songs.

• 2011 — Richard Gordon Charman, The Learning Curve: My Story, Memoirs Foundation Inc. (2011), →ISBN, page 120:

  I hadn't taken the car to work that day and after many beers at work I got a lift home and changed in readiness to head for my buck's party.

• 2011 — J. D. Cregan, The Wonder of Seldom Seen, UWA Publishing (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  We got married, had the kids, then one night he crashed his car after a buck's party and nearly killed himself.

• 2011 — Ken Haley, Europe @ 2.4 Km/h, Wakefield Press (2011), →ISBN, page 41:

  The multilingual Capt. Engen, whose most cherished maritime memories include service as first mate on ships that called at Australian ports from Kwinana to Newcaste, admits the occasional buck's party gets out of hand.

• 2012 — Andy Hughes, A Ringer's Hands, Boolarong Press (2012), →ISBN, page 117:

  He said, 'I met a girl like that at a buck's party in Darwin once,' and laughed with a level of enthusiasm that rocked the little boat.

• 2012 — Sami Lee, Moonlight Mirage, Samhain Publishing (2012), →ISBN, page 62:

  At the moment, watching some stripper slide up and down a shiny pole in his soon-to-be-brother-in-law's buck's party was the last thing occupying Mitch's mind.