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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To loosen or undo the buckle or buckles of.
  • intransitive verb To undo buckles.
  • intransitive verb Informal To relax.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To release from a fastening by buckles: as, to unbuckle a shoe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To loose the buckles of; to unfasten.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To unfasten (the buckle of (a belt, shoe, etc)).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb undo the buckle of

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