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Meaning of bucket head | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A stupid or oblivious person.
  2. One who wears a bucket, or a bucket-like object (such as a helmet) on their head.
  3. One who eats or drinks by the bucketful.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bucket, head.

Examples

“Everything went dark and I heard Joan laughing and asking, “Hey, bucket head, how is it going?””
“I rooted for him as he sweated out the beginning of a service period for a massive banquet at Versailles, ill-equipped, with only a rent-a-staff of indolent bucket heads to help him.”
“He just called people bucket heads when he thought that they did bucketheaded things.”
“As all Australians know, Ned Kelly (1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880) was a bucket head, or should I say, he was the Robin Hood of bucket heads.”
“"Come on, we got some bucket heads to kill," Andrew said. Marc whispered, "Bucket heads?" "You know," Aaron said, "Storm troopers, bad guys with guns."”
“Soon an army of bucket heads filled the streets.”
“Bucket heads down the alleyway off of West Fifteenth and Seventh.”
““Apparently the bucket heads took off in great haste and knocked a couple of rotorchairs out of the sky as they went.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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