Meaning of bucket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
2. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
3. The amount held in this container.
4. A large amount of liquid.
   in-plural, informal
5. A great deal of anything.
   in-plural, informal
6. A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
   UK, archaic
7. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
8. Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
   derogatory, slang
9. An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
   slang
10. The basket.
    informal
11. A field goal.
    informal
12. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
13. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
14. A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
    uncommon
15. A bucket bag.
16. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
17. The pitcher in certain orchids.
18. A helmet.
    humorous, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.”

“The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.”

“The horse drank a whole bucket of water.”

“It rained buckets yesterday.”

“I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.”

“My new suit cost me buckets.”

“We had buckets of fun.”

“The forward drove to the bucket.”

“We can't keep giving up easy buckets.”

“[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.”

“Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.”

“‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’”

“People used to call Pawtucket ‘the Bucket’. And it was a derogatory term. But you know what there are some artists who've taken that term ‘the Bucket’ and reinvigorated it and they actually sell shirts, ‘the Bucket’ shirts. They're proud of being from the Bucket”

“Rhode Island had a way of trapping its inhabitants like roaches that check in but can never escape. Pawtucket, The Bucket was especially gluey that way.”

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