How to pronounce “bucket”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
• The amount held in this container.
• (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
• (informal, chiefly in the plural) A great deal of anything.
• (UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
• Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
• (MTE, slang, derogatory) Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
• (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
• (basketball, informal) The basket.
• (basketball, informal) A field goal.
• (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
• (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
• (aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A 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.
• The pitcher in certain orchids.
• (slang, humorous) A helmet.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
• (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
• (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
• (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
• (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
• (transitive, Australia, slang) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
• (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
• (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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