bucket : Idioms & Phrases

• verb move fast
  rush; hotfoot; belt along; cannonball along; race; step on it; hie; hasten; speed; pelt along; rush along.
  
  • He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
  • The cars raced down the street

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• noun a low single seat as in cars or planes
  

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• noun an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
  
• noun (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
  

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Buck"et shop`

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1. An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. Slang, U.S.

Webster 1913

• noun a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner
  dinner pail.
  

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• noun a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed
  

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• a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.

Webster 1913

• verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  decease; give-up the ghost; pop off; perish; die; buy the farm; snuff it; choke; drop dead; pass away; expire; exit; croak; pass; go; conk; cash in one's chips.
  
  • She died from cancer
  • The children perished in the fire
  • The patient went peacefully
  • The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

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• (Cavalry), a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance.

Webster 1913

• a piston, without a valve, in a pump.

Webster 1913

• verb rain heavily
  rain cats and dogs; pelt; stream; pour.
  
  • Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!

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• to die. Low
• to lose one's life; to die. Colloq. & Low

Webster 1913

• noun a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine
  wine cooler.
  

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