Definitions for buck private
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Princeton's WordNet
private, buck private, common soldier(noun)
an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines
"our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
Wiktionary
buck private(Noun)
A private soldier keen ("bucking") for promotion; an ambitious private.
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