English

Pronunciation

• bûk'ĭt, /ˈbʌkɪt/, /'bVkIt/

Noun

bucket (plural buckets)

1. 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.

2. The amount held in this container.

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

3. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.
4. An old car that is not in good working order.
5. The basket.

   The forward drove to the bucket.

6. (basketball, colloquial) A field goal.

   We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

Synonyms

• (container): pail
• (old car): banger, jalopy, rustbucket

Derived terms

• bucket brigade
• bucket drive
• bucket of bolts
• bucket seat
• bucket shop
• bucketful
• gutbucket
• rustbucket

See also

• barrel
• keg
• pail
• tub

Translations

container

amount held in this container

part of piece of machinery

old car

colloquial, basketball: basket

colloquial, basketball: field goal

Translations to be checked

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• Finnish: ämpäri (1), ämpärillinen (2)

Intransitive verb

bucket (buckets, bucketed, bucketing)

1. (colloquial) To rain heavily.

   It's really bucketing down out there.

2. (colloquial) To travel very quickly.

   The boat is bucketing along.

Synonyms

• (rain heavily): chuck it down , piss down , rain cats and dogs
• (travel very quickly): hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz

Translations

rain heavily

travel very quickly