bucket

Plural: buckets

Noun

a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
the quantity contained in a bucket
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
The amount held in this container.
A large amount of liquid.
A great deal of anything.
A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
The basket.
A field goal.
A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
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.
A helmet.

Verb

Verb Forms: bucketed, bucketing, buckets

To move or drive very fast; to hurry.
put into a bucket
carry in a bucket
To place inside a bucket.
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
To rain heavily.
To travel very quickly.
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Examples

He had to bucket through his tile options to beat the Scrabble clock.
I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
It rained buckets yesterday.
It’s really bucketing down out there.
My new suit cost me buckets.
The boat is bucketing along.
The forward drove to the bucket.
The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
to bucket water
We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
We had buckets of fun.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

Synonyms

bucketful, pail, banger, beater, blade, book it, bucket down, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, chuck it down, clunker, crate, crock, flivver, hooptie, hurtle, jalopy, junker, lemon, old banger, piss down, rain cats and dogs, rattletrap, rocket, rustbucket, scoop, shed, shitbox, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, shoot, speed, tin Lizzie, vane, whizz, wreck

Scrabble Score: 14

bucket: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bucket: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bucket: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

bucket: valid Words With Friends Word