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bucket
[ buhk-it ]
noun
- a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- anything resembling or suggesting this.
- Machinery.
- any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.
- the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.
- a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.
- (in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
- a bucketful:
a bucket of sand.
- Basketball.
- Informal. field goal.
- the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
- Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.
verb (used with object)
- to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out ).
- Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.
- to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry.
bucket
/ ˈ²úÊŒ°ìɪ³Ù /
noun
- an open-topped roughly cylindrical container; pail
- Also calledbucketful the amount a bucket will hold
- any of various bucket-like parts of a machine, such as the scoop on a mechanical shovel
- a cupped blade or bucket-like compartment on the outer circumference of a water wheel, paddle wheel, etc
- computing a unit of storage on a direct-access device from which data can be retrieved
- a turbine rotor blade
- an ice cream container
- kick the bucket slang.to die
verb
- tr to carry in or put into a bucket
- introften foll bydown (of rain) to fall very heavily
it bucketed all day
- introften foll byalong to travel or drive fast
- tr to ride (a horse) hard without consideration
- slang.tr to criticize severely
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bucket1
Idioms and Phrases
- drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested:
The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.
- drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
- kick the bucket, Slang. to die:
His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.
More idioms and phrases containing bucket
see drop in the bucket ; kick the bucket ; rain cats and dogs (buckets) ; weep buckets .Example Sentences
Eric Bobo leans into the camera from his right, donning a leather jacket and hiding his eyes beneath a bucket hat and black sunglasses combo.
Although he’s supposed to be a stuffy neurosurgeon, Dr. Roth wears furry bucket hats and yoga pants.
A more complete reimagining of the space remained on the club’s bucket list.
In the other bucket are lawyers who promise to take their clients’ cases to the finish line and have experience battling utilities.
Their effort against Coby White in the first quarter was lacking, the Bulls guard quickly catching fire and matching Doncic bucket for bucket.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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