bucks
n. countablen. an informal word for dollars or other types of money like pounds. You use it when talking about prices with friends or family.
n. a colloquial term for a unit of currency, most commonly the United States dollar. Informal in register; typically restricted to spoken or casual written contexts.
The coffee only costs five bucks.
I managed to save fifty bucks this week by making my own lunch instead of eating out.
While the initial investment was only a few hundred bucks, the long-term maintenance costs proved to be significantly higher than the owner had anticipated.
Probably an altered spelling of German Buchs or a patronymic form of Buck.
Almost always used in the plural form when referring to a specific amount of money.
The shirt is ten buck.The shirt is ten bucks.Even in informal speech, the word must take the plural 's' when referring to more than one unit of currency.