bucket
[ buhk-it ]
/ ˈbʌk ɪt /
noun
verb (used with object), buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.
verb (used without object), buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.
Informal.
to move or drive fast; hurry.
Idioms for 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
British Dictionary definitions for kick the bucket
bucket
/ (ˈbʌkɪt) /
noun
verb -kets, -keting or -keted
Word Origin for bucket
C13: from Anglo-French
buket, from Old English
būc; compare Old High German
būh belly, German
Bauch belly
Cultural definitions for kick the bucket
kick the bucket
To die: “Scarcely anyone was sorry when the old tyrant finally kicked the bucket.”
Idioms and Phrases with kick the bucket (1 of 2)
kick the bucket
Die, as in All of my goldfish kicked the bucket while we were on vacation. This moderately impolite usage has a disputed origin. Some say it refers to committing suicide by hanging, in which one stands on a bucket, fastens a rope around one's neck, and kicks the bucket away. A more likely origin is the use of bucket in the sense of “a beam from which something may be suspended” because pigs were suspended by their heels from such beams after being slaughtered, the term kick the bucket came to mean “to die.” [Colloquial; late 1700s]
Idioms and Phrases with kick the bucket (2 of 2)
bucket
see drop in the bucket; kick the bucket; rain cats and dogs (buckets); weep buckets.