Meaning & use
bucks party
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Meaning
nouncountableAustralianinformal
A celebration for a man who is about to be married, held with his male friends shortly before the wedding.
Grammar: Countable: they planned a bucks party.
Patterns
- have a bucks party
- a bucks party for someone
His friends organized a bucks party at the beach house.
The bucks party was a weekend of camping and fishing.
We held a quiet bucks party instead of a wild one.
Word forms
| plural | bucks parties |
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Common combinations
- organize a bucks party
- His brother offered to organize a bucks party.
- throw a bucks party
- They threw a bucks party at the lake.
- attend a bucks party
- I will attend a bucks party next Saturday.
- bucks party weekend
- The bucks party weekend was full of games.
- bucks party guests
- The bucks party guests wore matching shirts.
Synonyms and how they differ
- stag party
- Stag party is the British term for the same event, and is also used in Ireland.
- bachelor party
- Bachelor party is the American equivalent, and sounds natural in North America.
- stag do
- Stag do is a British informal version, often implying a full weekend away.
- hen party
- Hen party is for the bride, so it is not a synonym but its counterpart.
Word family
- buck noun
- a male deer or rabbit, and also a dollar in slang
- bucks night noun
- the evening version of the bucks party
- hens party noun
- the equivalent party for the bride
Commonly confused: bucks party or bucks?
bucks party vs bucks
Bucks in other contexts means dollars in slang or male deer; in bucks party, it refers to the groom.
Practice
Tom's friends planned a weekend away as his ____ before the wedding in Sydney.
Choose one answer.
A bucks party is the pre-wedding celebration for the groom in Australia. A hens party is for the bride, and the other options are different events.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “bucks party”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.