What does buck 60 mean?

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What does buck 60 mean?

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I’m reading a book where a character weighs ‘a buck 60’. Can anyone tell me what that means please?
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He weigh 160 lb
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buck means one dollar, but in this case when written is 160
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Thank you
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A buck is one hundred pounds so a buck sixty is 160 lbs :)
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Thank you, it completely threw me because I think of a buck as being 1 dollar.
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Haha, now that is something new to me too. Great to stumble into these kinds of stuffs. :)
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