Meaning of buckethead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stupid or oblivious person.
2. One who eats or drinks by the bucketful.
3. One who wears a bucket or bucket-like object on his or her head.

Examples

“We were real bucketheads and we've got to make up for a lot of lost time. Even if we didn't know enough about the Communist conspiracy in those days to get out from behind the front organizations, then we certainly should have brains enough now to make amends by taking an active part in the present-day endeavors dedicated to exposing and destroying the Fifth Column in our professions.”

“So he held his fingers up, V for victory. Something those bucketheads ought to understand.”

“Maybe she could just step up her letter-writing campaign to the newspapers. She wondered if she wasn't fighting a losing battle anyway, trying to educate bucketheads.”

“Most of the guests were out on the front lawn, guzzling away, real bucketheads.”

“Between this weather and the bucketheads, it's tough for a guy to find a spot of shade."”

“The needs of our lumbering bucketheads dictated we go in close.”

““I wish you were a buckethead,” the troll said. "Then we could carry some water."”

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