bucket

IPA: bˈʌkʌt

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) an insult term used in Toronto to refer to 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.
A nickname for Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

(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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