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Buck Rogers 

Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories as Anthony Rogers. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue.

Philip Nowlan and the syndicate John F. Dille Company, later known as the National Newspaper Syndicate, contracted to adapt the story into a comic strip. After Nowlan and Dille enlisted editorial cartoonist Dick Calkins as the illustrator, Nowlan adapted the first episode from Armageddon 2419, A.D. and changed the hero's name from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. The strip made its first newspaper appearance on January 7, 1929. Later adaptations included a serial film, a television series (where his first name was changed from Anthony to William), and other formats.
The adventures of Buck Rogers in comic strips, movies, radio and television became an important part of American popular culture. This pop phenomenon paralleled the development of space technology in the 20th century and introduced Americans to outer space as a familiar environment for swashbuckling adventure.

Buck Rogers has been credited with bringing into popular media the concept of space exploration, following in the footsteps of literary pioneers such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Buck Rogers by The Centurion December 29, 2014
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buck rogers 

A pretty cool sci-fi show featuring Gil Gerard and that chick who played Ricky's mother on Silver Spoons
Dr. Theopolis fuckin' rules man.
buck rogers by Amazing Bill December 19, 2003

buck rogers 

A sexual position, when a male is on top of a female and her legs are up on his shoulders.
I fucked this chick buck rogers style last night.
buck rogers by jbnc January 9, 2009

Buck Rogers 

the best song ever written in the history of mankind, by a band called FEEDER
Buck Rogers by Anonymous September 17, 2003

Buck Rogers 

1) To become deeply overweight in middle age without realising
or...
2) Knowing that you're getting a bit porky but choosing to continue to wear skin tight clothing under the mistaken impression that you continue to look hot to members of the opposite sex

(Referring to Gil Gerard padding out his uniform a bit too well in the latter episodes of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century")
You really shouldn't a wear a thong to the office if you're too Buck Rogers... (Christ, she's bent over again)

Better to accept the fact that you've turned into Buck Rogers than carry on wearing skin tight bodies.

Fuck me, does Buck Rogers not know that t-shirt's two sizes too small..?
Buck Rogers by Lou06 July 17, 2006

Buck Rogers 

I was out of my head last night, man. I was Buck Rogers, believe.
Buck Rogers by Lorne Greene June 12, 2003

buck rogers time 

To have an especially long prison sentence.
He ain't never gettin' out--he's doin' Buck Rogers time.
buck rogers time by Tizzat January 28, 2004
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West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.
Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!
grebo by cactuscat September 15, 2006
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