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bucket

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Synonyms: busket, bucked, bucker, mucket, becket, tucket, sucket, burket, buckey, ducket, backet

Antonyms: busket, bucked, bucker, mucket, becket, tucket, sucket, burket, buckey, ducket, backet

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Noun

  1. A [[container]] made of [[rigid]] material, often with a [[handle]], used to [[carry]] liquids or small items.
  2. The [[amount]] held in this container.
  3. {{lb|en|informal|chiefly|in the plural}} A large amount of liquid.
  4. {{lb|en|informal|chiefly|in the plural}} A great deal of anything.
  5. {{lb|en|UK|archaic}} A unit of measure equal to four [[gallon]]s.
  6. The part of a [[piece]] of [[machinery]] that [[resemble]]s a bucket (container).
  7. {{lb|en|MTE|slang|derogatory}} Someone who habitually uses [[crack cocaine]].
  8. {{lb|en|slang}} An old [[vehicle]] that is not in good working [[order]].
  9. {{lb|en|basketball|informal}} The [[basket]].
  10. {{lb|en|basketball|informal}} A [[field goal]].
  11. {{lb|en|variation management}} A mechanism for avoiding the [[allocation]] of targets in cases of [[mismanagement]].
  12. {{lb|en|computing}} A storage space in a [[hash table]] for every item sharing a particular [[key]].

Verb

  1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To place inside a bucket.
  2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
  3. {{lb|en|intransitive|informal}} To [[rain]] heavily.
  4. {{lb|en|intransitive|informal}} To [[travel]] very [[quick]]ly.
  5. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[ride]] (a [[horse]]) hard or mercilessly.
  6. {{lb|en|transitive|AU|slang}} To [[criticize]] [[vehemently]]; to [[denigrate]].
  7. {{lb|en|computing|transitive}} To [[categorize]] (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
  8. {{lb|en|US|finance|transitive}} To [[engage]] in an [[illegal]] [[practice]] where a [[broker]] [[confirm]]s a [[client]]'s [[trade]] [[order]] without actually [[execute|executing]] it on the [[free market]].
  9. {{lb|en|transitive|UK|US|rowing}} To make, or cause to make (the [[recovery]]), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Proper noun

  1. {{place|en|@nickname for:Pawtucket|city|co/Providence County|s/Rhode Island|c/USA}}.

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