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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