Blood
.A buck, an aristocratic rowdy. A term taken from blood horses.
“A blood or dandy about town.”—Thackeray: Vanity Fair, chap. x. p. 49.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.