Meanings of buck private in English

The same frazzled buck private from hours earlier appeared in the holofield.

It might get the sergeant-major's goat if he found a buck private smoking half-crown cigars.'

I'm jealous of every buck private in the army!

On the other hand, he was busted down to buck private each time he was court-martialed.

A general can be bumped off by a buck private, if the private was, for example, a technician going somewhere on a hurry-up repair job.

Bedell Smith was a shopkeeper's son from Indiana who rose from buck private to general without the polish of West Point or a college degree.

The army of human civilisation at that moment consisted of one buck private, pitting everything he had against something that even science could not analyze.

Maybe, some day, it'll become required drinking for buck privates.

Paul, one of the buck privates and a constant winner at crap never talked to the dice.

"But, Bill, you don't want to stay a buck private, do you?"

Several wagoners, farriers, and buck privates acquired diseases of so peculiar a character that only Parisian physicians could treat them.

"All buck privates look alike to them," added Rose, laughing.

When the Top sargent wants a detail you can bet hes not goin to clime down fifty steps after one Buck private.

Buck privates to the end, they helped lay the "hornets' nest" of concentrated cannon fire that drove back the Union forces at Shiloh.