A friendly nickname for someone named Buck, or a reference to Bucky Barnes, a Marvel character, or buckyball (a carbon molecule shaped like a soccer ball).
Informal diminutive of 'Buck,' which itself comes from the word for a male deer. In chemistry, 'buckyball' was named after Buckminster Fuller by scientists who discovered it.
Buckyballs—or buckminsterfullerene—are carbon molecules shaped like soccer balls that were discovered in 1985 and named after architect Buckminster Fuller, showing how scientists use creative nicknames for their discoveries!
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