Usually means: Container for carrying liquids, solids.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word bucket:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bucket: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bucket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bucket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bucket: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bucket: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bucket, bucket: Wordnik
  7. bucket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bucket: Wiktionary
  9. bucket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bucket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bucket: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bucket, bucket: Dictionary.com
  13. bucket: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bucket: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bucket (TV series), Bucket (computing), Bucket (disambiguation), Bucket (excavator), Bucket (machine part), Bucket (mechanical engineering), Bucket (song), Bucket (unit), Bucket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bucket: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bucket: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bucket: Rhymezone
  19. bucket: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bucket: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bucket: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. bucket: Free Dictionary
  23. bucket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bucket: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Bucket, The Bucket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. bucket: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  3. bucket: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  4. bucket: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bucket: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bucket: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bucket (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bucket, bucket: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Bucket: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. Bucket, the bucket: Urban Dictionary
  6. Bucket: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Bucket: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bucketed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
noun:  The amount held in this container.
noun:  (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
noun:  (informal, chiefly in the plural) A great deal of anything.
noun:  (UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
noun:  Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
noun:  (MTE, slang, derogatory) Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
noun:  (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
noun:  (basketball, informal) The basket.
noun:  (basketball, informal) A field goal.
noun:  (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
noun:  (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
noun:  (aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
noun:  A bucket bag.
noun:  The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
noun:  The pitcher in certain orchids.
noun:  (slang, humorous) A helmet.
verb:  (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
verb:  (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
verb:  (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
verb:  (transitive, Australia, slang) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
verb:  (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
noun:  A nickname for Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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