Definitions for bucket

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bucket buck·et

Spelling: [buhk-it]

IPA: /ˈbʌk ɪt/

Bucket is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in bucket (bcektu).

Definitions for bucket

noun

1. 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.
2. anything resembling or suggesting this.
3. 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.
4. (in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
5. a bucketful:
6. Basketball. Informal. field goal. the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
7. bucket seat.
8. Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.

Idioms

1. drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested:
2. drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
3. kick the bucket, Slang. to die:

verb (used with object)

1. to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out).
2. Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.
3. to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry.

Origin of bucket

1250-1300; Middle English buket Anglo-French Old English bucc (variant of būc vessel, belly; cognate with German Bauch) + Old French -et -et

Examples for bucket

Then she picked one of the knives from the bucket and handed it to him.

Her solution: a bucket list of influential people and places to visit and photograph.

Early one morning I was passing out hot water, when a man showed me a bucket of blood from his slashed wrists and asked for help.

The men were drinking out of a bucket that flashed in the sun.

On the verge of turning 60 this December, Lennox still has a few items to cross off her bucket list.

They still carry the bucket and the pole, hoping yet dreading to meet their parents.

The bucket is perforated at the bottom, and being elevated, the oil drains off.

It was on a hike to the Grand Canyon at age 18 that Shattuck penned her first bucket list.

An 18-year-old Swedish rapper/Internet meme has inspired legions of impressionable teens to get based in bucket hats.

Presently she filled a cup from the bucket beside her and handed it to Donald.