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Bucket

//ˈbʌk.ɪt// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun

1
Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
"‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’"

Noun

1
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
"I need a bucket to carry the water from the well."
2
a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top wordnet
3
The amount held in this container.
"The horse drank a whole bucket of water."
4
the quantity contained in a bucket wordnet
5
A large amount of liquid. in-plural, informal
"It rained buckets yesterday."

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6
A great deal of anything. in-plural, informal
"My new suit cost me buckets."
7
A unit of measure equal to four gallons. UK, archaic
8
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
9
Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine. derogatory, slang
10
An old vehicle that is not in good working order. slang
11
The basket. informal
"The forward drove to the bucket."
12
A field goal. informal
"We can't keep giving up easy buckets."
13
A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
14
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
15
A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam. uncommon
16
A bucket bag.
"Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos."
17
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
18
The pitcher in certain orchids.
19
A helmet. humorous, slang

Verb

1
To place inside a bucket. transitive
2
carry in a bucket wordnet
3
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets. transitive
"to bucket water"
4
put into a bucket wordnet
5
To rain heavily. informal, intransitive
"It’s really bucketing down out there."

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6
To travel very quickly. informal, intransitive
"The boat is bucketing along."
7
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. transitive
8
To criticize vehemently; to denigrate. Australia, slang, transitive
9
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items. transitive
"These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines."
10
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. UK, US, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

Etymology 2

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