bucket

Meanings

Plural: buckets

Noun

• a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
• the quantity contained in a bucket
• A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
• The amount held in this container.
• A large amount of liquid.
• A great deal of anything.
• A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
• Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
• Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
• An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
• The basket.
• A field goal.
• A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
• A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
• A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
• A bucket bag.
• The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
• The pitcher in certain orchids.
• A helmet.

Verb

• put into a bucket
• carry in a bucket
• To place inside a bucket.
• To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
• To rain heavily.
• To travel very quickly.
• To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
• To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
• To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
• To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Synonyms

banger, beater, blade, book it, bucket down, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, bucketful, chuck it down, clunker, crate, crock, flivver, hooptie, hurtle, jalopy, junker, lemon, old banger, pail, piss down, rain cats and dogs, rattletrap, rocket, rustbucket, scoop, shed, shitbox, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, shoot, speed, tin Lizzie, vane, whizz, wreck

Related Words

barrel, keg, pail, tub