buck sergeant

1. 1.

   a sergeant of the lowest rank in the military

   Broaderpolice sergeant

Questions about buck sergeant

What does buck sergeant mean?

buck sergeant means "a sergeant of the lowest rank in the military".

Is buck sergeant a common word?

buck sergeant 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.