Entry · catalog no. 1087
get buck
/ /ɡɛt bʌk/ /get buk
verb · Memphis · 1990s
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1.
To go wild — to throw the body and the energy all the way up, especially in a club or a crowd. From Memphis, where 'buckin' also names a hard, stomping dance.
“Beat dropped and the whole floor got buck.”
Origin & Attribution
Memphis, out of the early crunk and jookin scene of the 1990s. Three 6 Mafia's rowdy anthems fixed "get buck" in hip-hop, and the sound became a blueprint for Atlanta crunk. Shares a field with older "buck wild," but the Memphis club sense is its own.
1995
Three 6 Mafia's 'Tear Da Club Up' captures the get-buck energy
2000s
Feeds the crunk wave out of Memphis and Atlanta
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
Memphis · 1990s
Spoken by
Black Memphis; crunk-era hip-hop
$GETBUCThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Faded31 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
75/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
1995
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Three 6 Mafia, 'Tear Da Club Up' — 1995
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