bucket n.
1. in pl., boots or shoes.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 309: To my worthy friend, Sir John Blubber, Knt. I give and bequeath my padders, my stampers, my buckets, otherwise my boots. | |
| ‘Monmouth Street’ in Lover’s Harmony No. 19 148: You may get new ‘buckets’ for a bob! |
2. (UK Und./Aus.) a glass.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Mercury (Hobart) 23 Apr. 2/5: [from the Stranraer Free Press] [...] a bucket, a tastin’, a toothfu’, a cinder. | |
| Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 305: ‘Oh!’ said the man addressed, ‘I’m on the rocks, but never mind, come and have a bucket (i.e. glass) of rum.’. | |
| ‘The Greater Love’ in Naval Occasions 221: Now, Shortie, fill up! Snatcher, you’d better have a bucket. | |
| A Bottle of Sandwiches 169: Three ‘buckets’ of foaming suds, amber in colour, with an inch of collar spilling over the rim. | |
| Aus. Word Map 🌐 bucket [...] ‘A bucket was a jug of mixed spirits that you could get for $5 at St Pauls Tavern in Brisbane’. |
3. (Can./US Und.) a county or local prison; later uses underpinned by bucket and pail n.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Stories of the Street and of the Town (1941) 94: No more drillin’ in the snow; no soup houses; never again in a bucket. | |
| ‘Goldfish’ in Red Wind (1946) 170: He’s too stir-wise for me. I smell of the bucket. | |
| Dark Ship 227: When I get out of the bucket some of these fakers shoot one of our guys. | |
| Man with the Golden Arm 6: If Schwiefka wasn’t always tryin’ to chisel [...] we wouldn’t get tossed in the bucket so much. | |
| Felony Tank (1962) 81: You can’t miss it when you’ve been around as many of these buckets as I have. | |
| Hell’s Angels (1967) 27: So off I went to the bucket, for rape. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Go-Boy! 239: After I had busted out of the county bucket in Saint John the staff there didn’t want me around any more. | |
| Lowspeak. | |
 | (con. 1930s) Snow Geese (2002) 168: Marshall was sentenced to thirty days in the Regina bucket. |
4. an automobile, esp. old and/or dilapidated.
| ‘Broken Melody’ in Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 ‘Drive, señor!’ I headed my bucket toward nowhere in particular. | |
| ‘Feature Snatch!’ Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective Feb. 🌐 S big black Cad sedan just ahead of my bucket. | |
| L.A. Times 29 Feb. 24/4: They’re ones driving the fancy cars [...] My friends? They’re driving around in buckets. | |
| Street Legends n.p.: Me and Wayne went to pick up a bucket he had parked across town. He used the car to stash stuff in. | |
| Locked Ward (2013) 237: We piled out of the bucket and entered the tenement. | |
| ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 73: ‘She’s much classier than this bucket suggests’. |
5. (US prison) a cell.
| Riker’s 230: I go into his bucket, and I look through his pictures. |
6. in physiological contexts.
(a) the vagina, esp. when large or loose.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| ‘Don’t Slip Me in the Dozen’ 🎵 It’s my cup, it’s my bucket, it’s my little red bucket. | |
| Get Your Cock Out 115: Dandy almost fainted when the mad woman started to sew up her bucket. |
(b) (US, also brown bucket) the anus, the buttocks; thus bucket queen, a male homosexual who takes the active role in anal intercourse.
| Americana Sexualis 14: Bucket, n. Posterior. | |
| ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 34: brown bucket The hinder part; the rectum. | |
| et al. Gay Girl’s Guide 4: bucket: Posterior (clothed outline). | |
| Onionhead (1958) 273: ‘I just hope we don’t get a torpedo shoved up our bucket’. | |
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 17: The man who fucks in anal intercourse, as opposed to the one who is fucked [...] bucket queen. [Ibid.] 23: The posterior [...] bucket. [Ibid.] 158: bucket a portable toilet. By extension, the anus. | |
| Raped Bitch Wife [ebook] ‘[I]t’s her ass I’m really crazy about. Always did love that bucket of yours, Claudine’. | |
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐. | |
| Shagadelically Speaking 60: heinie, butt; bum; ass; [...] bottom; bucket. |
7. any form of motor vehicle, boat or airplane that has become run down and dilapidated.
| Death Ship 11: Shit the bucket. There are lots of other ships in the world. | |
| ‘Death’s Passport’ in Goodstone Pulps (1970) 115/1: I climbed into my bucket and souped the kidneys out of it. | |
| Runyon à la Carte 127: Homer goes to a parking lot not far away where he keeps an old bucket parked. | |
| Mister Roberts I i: You’re stuck on this old bucket. | |
| New Yorker 7 Feb. 82: You’re going on that French bucket [W&F]. | |
| Blow Negative! 270: It must be a drag on that bucket without him around. | |
| (con. 1940s) Admiral (1968) 32: Once this bucket gets under way I doubt that her damaged deck and hull plates can stand the strain. | |
| U-Jack Society 108: More than 300 cars were out on the straight [...] Funny cars, Buckets, Gassers. | |
| Slow Boats to China (1983) 92: A crooked shipowner gave me a ship – a bucket, really. | |
| 38 North Yankee 327: Why don’t you stash those buckets [jeeps] in some cover. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. 2: bucket – car. | |
| (con. 1918) Eye in the Door 62: ‘Here she [i.e. an airplane] is,’ Dundas said, patting the fuselage. ‘Terrible old bucket.’. | |
| Shooting In The Dark (2002) 176: The old bucket’ll last long enough to get you home. | |
| Mad mag. Aug. 50: This show is all about taking a bucket and making it pimp. | |
| Generation Kill ‘Get Some’ ep. 1 [TV script] Only got this bucket [i.e. a Humvee] five days ago. |
8. (US) a plump woman, an unattractive woman.
| , | | DAS. |
| (con. 1960s) Blood Brothers 167: I know she looks like an old bucket now, but after six months here, she’ll look more and more like Liz Taylor to you. |
9. (US campus) an incompetent, clumsy person.
| Hero Ship 200: Most of the conversation in their kitchen was of steam and bull—English—and of slashes, who studied too hard or buckets who studied not hard enough. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. 2: bucket – someone who feels embarrassed, down on luck, or insignificant. ‘I stuck my foot in my mouth in front of my professor, and now I feel like a major bucket.’. |
10. (US) in basketball, a scoring shot.
| Hoops 47: I could have either passed or went for the bucket myself. I went for the bucket. | |
| Corner (1998) 127: On defense, R.C. holds his man to a single bucket. | |
| Way Home (2009) 173: Christ stayed on court [...] telling him to watch the extra step on his drive to the bucket. |
11. see bucket bong
In compounds
(US gay) a passive partner in anal intercourse.
| Queens’ Vernacular 146: passive partner [...] bucket boy. | |
| Gay (S)language. |
(US Und.) a prostitute who permits anal intercourse.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 35: bucket broad A prostitute who practices a type of sexual variant. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
a large vagina.
| on Urban Dict. 🌐 bucket cunt a ho with a large vaginal entry. Damn that bitch has got a mammoth/dripping bucket cunt. | |
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: bucket fanny n. A spacious vagina. Also Tardis fanny / twat. |
In phrases
(US prison) in prison.
| Prison Sl. 26: Dropped in the Bucket Placed in prison. |
see under drop v.1
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(US gay) to have anal intercourse.
| (ref. to mid-1950s) Queens’ Vernacular 88: anal intercourse [...] paint the bucket (mid ’50s). | |
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 anal intercourse: [...] Syn: paint the bucket. |
In exclamations
(US) a general excl. of dismissal.
| Gay Detective (2003) 19: Right back came the very earthy natural tones of the handholder: ‘Up ye’ bucket, Butch!’. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(Aus./US drugs) a form of gravity pipe for smoking marijuana, made with a 2-litre (3½-pint) plastic bottle and a bucket.
| ‘Smokin’ Sl.’ at Mary Jane mag. (Melbourne) Sept. 🌐 Bucket Bong: Water pipe made from a bucket and plastic bottle. | |
| Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1998) 175: I [...] made a bucket bong from which we pulled a thousand cones. | |
| teentoday.co.uk 🌐 CannabisIn the form of: spliff, joint, reefer, yogurt, bong, pipe, bucket. | |
| XPress Online (Perth) 🌐 Likewise, when someone does the dishes by pouring lighter fluid on the sink and throwing a match on it, or marvels at the miracle that is the bucket bong [...] each and every scenario is forced and unnatural. | |
| www.haveabucket.com 🌐 You are not stoned enough to view this website. Please have 4 buckets and make sure you are completely bong-eyed before going any further. | |
| Good Girl Stripped Bare 44: They say drugs help, but every time I experiment [...] I end up horizontal. Amyl nitrate? Crack my head on the dance floor. Bucket bong? Instant snooze. Speed? Nose bleed. |
(UK Und.) a sheep.
| Discoveries (1774) 40: They are great Priggers of Caunes and Bucket-chats; that is Sheep and Fowl. | |
| Whole Art of Thieving 34: They [i.e. gypsies] are great Priggers of Caunes and Bucket-chats, that is, sheep and fowl. |
1. (US) a fool, a simpleton; thus bucket-headed adj., stupid.
| ‘The Kin-der-Kids’ [comic strip] Git out of the way, you bucket-headed lunatic. | |
| ‘El Presidente de Mejico’ in Algren Texas Stories (1995) 83: Hey, Buckethead [...] are all them Jews as crazy as you? | |
| , | | DAS. |
| (con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 68: He’s telling you right, Bucket-head. [Ibid.] 133: I told that bucket-head bastard. | |
| Tourist Season (1987) 164: Meaning you and your bucket-headed partner are on your way to Fox Hill Prison if you fuck with me. |
2. (US black) a woman, esp. a fellatrix.
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 buckethead Definition: a female, usually one that sucks dick. Example: Kiesha an all her friends are bucketheads, it’d be easy to pimp ’em. |
1. a chatterer.
| CB Slanguage 18: Bucket Mouth: loud mouth or gossip. | |
| Seedtime and Harvest 🌐 Just because Sister Bucketmouth, the church gossip, reports tales that are true, that doesn’t mean you and I need to give EAR to her and to THINK about the things she says. |
2. one who habitually uses ‘bad language’.
| CB Slanguage 18: Bucket Mouth: [...] obscene or profane talker. | |
| Citizens Band 69: What about ... the bucket mouth who reads porno over Twenty? [HDAS]. |
In phrases
to move backwards/forwards/from side to side, to oscillate; thus adv. buckety-blam, of movement, abruptly, sharply.
| Le Slang 73: to bucket about the place, bringueballer. | |
| ‘Heads You lose’ in Dan Turner Hollywood Detective Feb. 🌐 We both pelted buckety-blam to the convertible. | |
| ‘Doing Nothing Was Wonderful’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 72: No jolly little round songs about the friendly little mongoose going buckety-buckety down the big big road. | |
| (con. 1916) Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 208: The flivvers bucketed up the far side and soon drew away. |
to rain very heavily.
| [ | | Adventures of Johnny Newcome I 31: While rain by buckets-full came down]. |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Chambers’s Journal Dec. 844/1: Tramps don’t walk about a marsh in bucketing rain in the midnight hours, fidgeting to attack somebody. | |
| Who Rides with Wyatt 75: A driving wind and a sleety snow [was] bucketing down off the Dragoons, across Goose Flats. | |
| Strip Jack 199: It bucketed down [...] Hardly any bugger went out that day. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Bucketing (v): raining very heavily. |
to be attacked (hysterically).
| Eve. Standard 14 Mar. 15/5: Joan Bakewell has been copping a bucket [...] on social media about off-the-cuff remarks about anorexia she made. |
a phr. of general dismissal.
| Picture Palace 228: ‘Get off the bucket, I’m serious,’ I said. |
to jilt, to reject as a lover .
| Sylvia’s Lovers II 122: He were sore put about because Hester had gi’en him the bucket. |
(US bnlack/police) to imprison.
| Rivers of Blood 35: ‘The people is tired. They is tired of being stuck in the bucket by the police. They is tired of this molestation!’. |
(Aus.) to speak openly, without restraint.
| Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] I’ve been dealing with the fucking media for forty years. Ms Hillier thought she’d have a better chance of getting me to tip a bucket if she sent you. |