Meaning of brain bucket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A protective helmet, as worn, for example, by a motorcyclist, bicyclist, or soldier in combat.
   humorous, idiomatic, sometimes
2. The skull; the head.
   dated

Examples

“The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet) . . . .”

“Roy Knickman of 7-Eleven said he fears more crashes today and will not keep his helmet far from sight. "I always wear my brain bucket," he said.”

“Riding a 500-pound motorcycle in the middle of 3-ton Ford Expeditions and 40-ton trucks is dangerous, with or without a brain bucket or a leather jacket.”

“[H]e fetched me such a clip on top of my brain-bucket as to drive all my senses clear down into my boots.”

“"[B]ut come, Ed, haven't you got your brain-bucket mended yet, so that you can tell us a story?"”

CEFR level