Synonyms for bucket
ˈbʌk ɪtbuck·et

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1. bucketnoun

   Synonyms:
   pail, scoop, banger, jalopy, rustbucket, vane, blade

2. bucketnoun

   A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

   I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.

   Synonyms:
   blade, vane, scoop, rustbucket, jalopy, pail, banger

3. bucketnoun

   To rain heavily.

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

   Synonyms:
   pail, vane, rustbucket, blade, jalopy, scoop, banger, chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs

4. bucketnoun

   Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.

   Synonyms:
   scoop, jalopy, blade, rustbucket, whizz, rocket, speed, shoot, hurtle, banger, vane, pail

5. bucketnoun

   An old car that is not in good working order.

   Synonyms:
   jalopy, scoop, blade, vane, rustbucket, pail, banger

6. bucketnoun

   The basket.

   The forward drove to the bucket.

   Synonyms:
   rustbucket, blade, vane, scoop, jalopy, pail, banger

7. bucketnoun

   A field goal.

   We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

   Synonyms:
   rustbucket, banger, pail, scoop, blade, jalopy, vane

8. bucketnoun

   A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

   Synonyms:
   banger, blade, jalopy, pail, scoop, rustbucket, vane

9. bucketnoun

   A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

   Synonyms:
   rustbucket, jalopy, blade, scoop, pail, banger, vane

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1. bucket, pailnoun

   a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

   Synonyms:
   bucketful, pail, pailful

2. bucket, bucketfulverb

   the quantity contained in a bucket

   Synonyms:
   bucketful, pail

3. bucketverb

   put into a bucket

4. bucketverb

   carry in a bucket

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1. junkie

   a general term for a drug addict that has no control of their habit

   that bucket just tried to rip me off so they could get their fix

   Submitted by anonymous on May 18, 2021  

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "bucket":

   pail, seau, cube, basket, hub, block, network, agassiz, period, seal, shovel, dumpster

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How to use bucket in a sentence?

1. Rick Carroll:

   What happens is that somebody may have a tooth in their pocket and reach in the pocket to throw all the change in the bucket, we get that with car keys and house keys. It happens more often than you think.

2. Pat Meehan:

   After it passes we're still going to have the bucket full of problems that haven't been resolved, so I can tell everybody I went charging up the hill and we shut it down but it's gonna be on their doorstep, the implications of this, most specifically, the sickest people but then the taxpayers.

3. Aaron Rodgers:

   It’s really significant, it’s always been on my bucket list, this is a pretty big deal for me, I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It’s a great week by itself, spending time with Ben, but winning is the sweetest.

4. 'jubal' yinka popoola:

   where there is a bucket,there is a river

5. George Orwell:

   Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.