1 (AmE also pail) [C] a round open container with a handle, used for carrying or holding liquids, sand, etc:
a plastic bucket * They were playing on the beach with their buckets and spades.
2 (also bucketful ) (AmE also pail, pailful) [C] the amount contained in a bucket:
two buckets / bucketfuls of water * They used to drink tea by the bucket / bucketful (= in large quantities).
3 (buckets) [pl.] (informal) a large amount:
To succeed in show business, you need buckets of confidence. * We wept buckets. * He was sweating buckets by the end of the race. * The rain was coming down in buckets (= it was raining very heavily).
IDIOMS see DROPn., KICKv.
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
bucket down (BrE, informal) to rain heavily:
It's bucketing down.
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