- Large front teeth protruding over the others; the phrase may come from buck, the adult male of some animals, such as rabbits—which have this type of front teeth.
Flash forward to 1980 in Prescot Road, Fairfield, and 25-year-old Malcolm is coming out of an off-licence holding a bottle of Woodpecker when a Jag pulls up on the other side of the road and out pops a tall, gangly man with buck teeth. My mouth opened.
With that unruly mop of hair and yellow buck teeth, Bala ettan walks with a swagger, chest thrust forward, his hands pushing back the collar of his shirt.
Quote: "When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces.
LDP WHO would have thought that the naked mole rat, a spectacularly inconspicuous creature with a predisposition to buck teeth, could hold the key to a major health research breakthrough?
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