bucket

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 amount held in this container.

“The horse drank a whole bucket of water.”

informalchiefly in the pluralA large amount of liquid.

“It rained buckets yesterday.”

“I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.”

informalchiefly in the pluralA great deal of anything.

“My new suit cost me buckets.”

“We had buckets of fun.”

Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

mteslangAn insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.

slangAn old vehicle that is not in good working order.

basketballinformalThe basket.

“The forward drove to the bucket.”

basketballinformalA field goal.

“We can't keep giving up easy buckets.”

variation managementA mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

computingA storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

aviationmechanical engineeringuncommonA 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.

To place inside a bucket.

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

“to bucket water”

informalTo rain heavily.

“It’s really bucketing down out there.”

informalTo travel very quickly.

“The boat is bucketing along.”

To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

auslangTo criticize vehemently; to denigrate.

computingTo categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.

UKUSrowingTo make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.