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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
buck-passing
 
SYLLABICATION:buck-pass·ing
PRONUNCIATION:bkpsng
NOUN: Informal The shifting of responsibility or blame to another: “smothered in avalanches of recriminations and orgies of buck-passing” (Forbes).
ETYMOLOGY: buck4 (from a poker player's passing the marker, or buck, to the next player when not wanting to deal).
OTHER FORMS:buck-passer —NOUN
 
 
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