From a 1976 speech by Ronald Reagan, who complained of "strapping young bucks" using public assistance to buy T-Bone steaks, the phrase is shorthand for "undeserving and lazy black people living off hardworking white taxpayers instead of getting a job." Many commentators have noted that the phrase originated from the auction block. Now used ironically by liberal commentators to identify racist dog-whistles in conservative argument.

"Whereas once the problem was just welfare queens and strapping young bucks, now it’s the entire middle and lower classes, the lazy union members, the credit card deadbeats, the unemployed so content with their benefits that they don’t look for work."

'We Are All Strapping Young Bucks Now'
Doug J. _Balloon Juice_ January 6, 2011

strapping young buck by Saxifrage2300 January 7, 2012

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Strapping Young Buck

A young, good-looking, and rather hot example of the male species who appears before the eyes of a lustful older woman.

Boss: "Why are you late?"
Cougar: "I got derailed by a strapping young buck."
Boss: "With antlers and everything?"

Strapping Young Buck by MadamexXx March 10, 2009

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The Young Buck Problem

when you tryna buck but can't buck

this the young buck problem shit is a problem

The Young Buck Problem by rasputin5000 January 29, 2021

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