bucket: Meaning and Definition of

buck•et

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.
1. any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.
2. the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.
3. 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: a bucket of sand.
1. Informal.Seefield goal.
2. the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
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8. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins. See illus. under
9. a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested: The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.
10. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
11. to die: His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.

1. to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often fol. by up or out).
2. 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.

1. to move or drive fast; hurry.