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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1. Channan Petrides:

   I know I’ve taken a massive risk, but I want to enjoy the time I have left, rather than stick [sic] waiting to get a call that may never come, nobody could say for sure that the transplant would work, and I wouldn’t have been able to do anything on my bucket list because of risk of infection.

2. Michael Douglas:

   That was on my bucket list. I mean, to work with Michelle Pfeiffer -- I didn’t anticipate that we could work together, it looked like we worked together 40 years ago, but I was a happy camper. I can cross that one off.

3. Philipp Heck:

   Some of these cosmic rays interact with the matter and form new elements, and the longer they get exposed, the more those elements form. I compare this with putting out a bucket in a rainstorm. Assuming the rainfall is constant, the amount of water that accumulates in the bucket tells you how long it was exposed.

4. Harry Kent:

   We’ve had a climbing and outdoor school for 28 years, no other business or guide service was offering cliff camping to the public. I thought it would be an exciting bucket-list adventure for people.

5. Abby Shafroth:

   It's a narrow bucket. It doesn't seem clear any person or entity has standing.