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A large quantity (of something)
“We collected buckets of seashells during our beach vacation.”
Abundance of floods, gallons, or lashings
“After days of heavy rain, the city experienced buckets of water flowing through the streets, causing widespread flooding.”
Plural for a roughly cylindrical open container with a handle, typically used to hold and carry liquids
“Aaron complained of seasickness and frowned when the skipper curtly shoved a bucket in his face.”
(slang) Plural for an old vehicle that is not in good working order
“Many years ago, I was driving an old bucket, a car whose headlights were as bright as a match stick, the left light shot straight up in the night sky, and the right one pointed down.”
Plural for part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket
“He had seen what he thought was a human leg and foot dangling out from the excavator's bucket.”
Plural for a cylindrical container with a handle and a lip, used for holding and pouring liquids
Plural for a receptacle for holding waste, such as ashes, rubbish, or discarded items
Plural for covering for the head
Plural for a capacious receptacle for storing a specified substance
Plural for a portion or serving, especially of food
Plural for a vessel for traveling over water
(of rain) In a torrential manner
To rain heavily
“Unfortunately, we had reckoned without the Texas weather, which decided to bucket down with rain all morning.”
To lift out (liquid) with a utensil
“Watkins's crew swarmed out to bucket water to the blazing rig.”
To shake or vibrate jerkily or nervously
“Driving at a fast speed proved impossible as the car would begin to bucket violently.”
(of a vehicle) To move quickly and jerkily
“The bank-robbing brothers pioneered the same territory that Bonnie and Clyde would bucket across to much larger celebrity a decade later.”
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