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bucket

1. n. the goal (hoop and net) in basketball. (Sports.) Freddy arced one at the bucket and missed.

2. n. a hoop or basket in basketball. (Sports.) Four buckets in two minutes. Is that a record, or what?

3. n. the buttocks. (see also can.) Sam’s getting a real fat bucket, isn’t he?

4. n. an old car. (From bucket of bolts.) How much did you pay for that old bucket?

See:

• a drop in the bucket
• a drop in the ocean
• a gut-bucket
• bit-bucket
• bolt bucket
• brain bucket
• bucket
• bucket down
• bucket list
• bucket of bolts
• can't carry a tune
• come down in buckets
• couldn't carry a note in a bucket
• couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
• don't amount to a bucket of spit
• drool bucket
• drop in the bucket
• For crying out loud!
• gash bucket
• go to hell in a bucket
• gut-bucket
• Hell’s bells and buckets of blood!
• kick off
• kick the bucket
• light bucket
• rain cats and dogs
• rust bucket
• sleaze-bucket
• slime bag
• slime bucket
• sweat buckets
• weep buckets