Meaning & use
bucks night
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Meaning
nouncountableAustralian
A party held for a man shortly before his wedding, usually organized by his male friends.
Grammar: Countable: they held a bucks night on Friday; also written buck's night.
Patterns
- a bucks night for someone
- go on a bucks night
His brothers planned a bucks night at a bowling alley the weekend before the wedding.
We kept the bucks night low-key because Tom had to be up early for the ceremony.
Jack's mates took him to the coast for his bucks night.
Word forms
| plural | bucks nights |
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Common combinations
- organize a bucks night
- The best man organized a bucks night in Melbourne.
- go on a bucks night
- Six of them went on a bucks night to the lake.
- a bucks night weekend
- The bucks night weekend turned into a camping trip.
- bucks night and hens night
- The couple had separate bucks night and hens night parties.
- a wild bucks night
- He promised his fiancée it would not be a wild bucks night.
Synonyms and how they differ
- stag night
- Stag night is the usual British term, while bucks night is the Australian and New Zealand equivalent.
- bachelor party
- Bachelor party is the standard American term and sounds more formal than bucks night.
- stag do
- Stag do is also British and often means a whole weekend away rather than a single evening.
Opposites
Word family
- buck noun
- a male deer, or informally a young man
- bucks party noun
- another Australian name for the same event
- hens night noun
- the matching party for a bride-to-be
Commonly confused: bucks night or bucks?
bucks night vs bucks
Bucks can also mean dollars in informal American English, but in bucks night it refers to the groom as a male, not to money.
Practice
In Australia, a man's friends might throw him a ____ shortly before the wedding.
Choose one answer.
A bucks night is the pre-wedding party for the groom. A hens night is for the bride, so it does not fit, and the other events are unrelated to weddings.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “bucks night”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.