buck fever

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   nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter

   Broaderfever

Questions about buck fever

What does buck fever mean?

buck fever means "nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter".

Is buck fever a common word?

buck fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.