bucket

[ buhk-it ]

/ ˈbʌk ɪt /

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noun

a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.

anything resembling or suggesting this.

Machinery.

any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.
the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.
a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.

(in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.

a bucketful: a bucket of sand.

Basketball.

Informal. field goal.
the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.

bucket seat.

Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.

verb (used with object), buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.

to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out).

Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.

to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.

verb (used without object), buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.

Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry.

Idioms for bucket

drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested: The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.

drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.

kick the bucket, Slang. to die: His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.

Origin of bucket

1250–1300; Middle English buket < Anglo-French < Old English bucc (variant of būc vessel, belly; cognate with German Bauch) + Old French -et -et

regional variation note for bucket

Though both bucket and pail are used throughout the entire U.S., pail has its greatest use in the Northern U.S., and bucket is more commonly used elsewhere, especially in the Midland and Southern U.S.

Words nearby bucket

buckbean, buckboard, bucked, buckeen, bucker, bucket, bucket about, bucket brigade, bucket conveyor, bucket ladder, bucket list

Example sentences from the Web for bucket

An 18-year-old Swedish rapper/Internet meme has inspired legions of impressionable teens to get based in bucket hats.

The Cult of Yung Lean: ‘I’m Building An Anarchistic Society From the Ground Up’ |Marlow Stern |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Early one morning I was passing out hot water, when a man showed me a bucket of blood from his slashed wrists and asked for help.

A Million Ways to Die in Prison |Daniel Genis |December 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her solution: a bucket list of influential people and places to visit and photograph.

Annie Leibovitz Talks About ‘Pilgrimage,’ Susan Sontag, Vogue & More |Justin Jones |November 20, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It was on a hike to the Grand Canyon at age 18 that Shattuck penned her first bucket list.

From Baltimore Ravens Cheerleader to Mrs. Robinson |Brandy Zadrozny |November 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

On the verge of turning 60 this December, Lennox still has a few items to cross off her bucket list.

Annie Lennox Doesn’t Give a Damn What You Think |Itay Hod |October 21, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
There was a bucket of water, full of cool green lights, standing by the well.

The Serf |Guy Thorne
How fortunate that he had left this wide open when starting after that bucket of water!

Rocky Mountain Boys |St. George Rathborne
Their own bucket, improvised out of a dish-cover and a rope, lay close to the brink.

The Wings of the Morning |Louis Tracy
He dipped the bucket, and Rob had his wash; by that time Brazier had joined him.

Rob Harlow's Adventures |George Manville Fenn
A brace is made of tin bent in the shape shown and riveted to the bottom of the bucket.

The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for bucket

bucket

/ (ˈbʌkɪt) /

noun

an open-topped roughly cylindrical container; pail

Also called: bucketful the amount a bucket will hold

any of various bucket-like parts of a machine, such as the scoop on a mechanical shovel

a cupped blade or bucket-like compartment on the outer circumference of a water wheel, paddle wheel, etc

computing a unit of storage on a direct-access device from which data can be retrieved

mainly US a turbine rotor blade

Australian and NZ an ice cream container

kick the bucket slang to die

verb -kets, -keting or -keted

(tr) to carry in or put into a bucket

(intr often foll by down) (of rain) to fall very heavily it bucketed all day

(intr often foll by along) mainly British to travel or drive fast

(tr) mainly British to ride (a horse) hard without consideration

(tr) Australian slang to criticize severely

Word Origin for bucket

C13: from Anglo-French buket, from Old English būc; compare Old High German būh belly, German Bauch belly

Idioms and Phrases with bucket

bucket

see drop in the bucket; kick the bucket; rain cats and dogs (buckets); weep buckets.

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bucket

noun

verb (used with object), buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.

verb (used without object), buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.

Idioms for bucket

Origin of bucket

regional variation note for bucket

Words nearby bucket

Example sentences from the Web for bucket

British Dictionary definitions for bucket

noun

verb -kets, -keting or -keted

Word Origin for bucket

Idioms and Phrases with bucket

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

bucket

noun

verb (used with object), buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.

verb (used without object), buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.

Idioms for bucket

Origin of bucket

regional variation note for bucket

Words nearby bucket

Words related to bucket

Example sentences from the Web for bucket

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noun

verb -kets, -keting or -keted

Word Origin for bucket

Idioms and Phrases with bucket

British Dictionary definitions for bucket