bucket

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/ˈbʌk.ɪt/

noun 5verb 5name 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

empty, full | galvanized, metal, plastic | leaky | champagne, ice | water

slop, waste

We emptied the waste bucket behind the restaurant every evening.

mop | coal

fire

Firefighters quickly grabbed the fire bucket to help extinguish the small kitchen blaze.

VERB + BUCKET

fill

The gardener filled a bucket with soil to repot the houseplants.

carry

empty, pour, throw

The gardener emptied the bucket and refilled it with fresh water.

BUCKET + VERB

be filled with/full of sth, contain sth, hold sth | overflow

PREP

in a/the ~

~ of

She carried a bucket of water from the well to fill the garden plants.

PHRASES

a bucket and spade

My son asked me to buy him a bucket and spade before our holiday at the seaside.

mop and bucket

She grabbed a mop and bucket to clean up the spilled water in the kitchen.

Definitions

noun

A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

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 amount held in this container.

The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

A large amount of liquid.

It rained buckets yesterday.

I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.

A great deal of anything.

My new suit cost me buckets.

We had buckets of fun.

A unit of measure equal to four gallons.

verb

To place inside a bucket.

To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.

to bucket water

To rain heavily.

It’s really bucketing down out there.

To travel very quickly.

The boat is bucketing along.

To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

name

Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.

‘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

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

pail

noun — the quantity contained in a bucket

bucketful

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

kick the bucket

To die.

The old horse finally kicked the bucket.

bolt bucket

A machine, especially an automobile. Implies that the machine is clunky or unreliable.

He's still driving the old boltbucket he drove while he was in school.

drop in the bucket

Something of little importance, especially an inconsequential effort or action as compared to a huge problem.

A $100 donation from an individual is generous, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the $100,000 fundraising goal.

light bucket

A reflecting telescope, especially one with a relatively large aperture and suitable for observing deep sky objects such as nebulae and galaxies.

bucket down

To rain heavily.

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

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to bucket water

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It’s really bucketing down out there.

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The boat is bucketing along.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, bucket is marked as informal, archaic, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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