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What does bucket mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bucket? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
  2. The amount held in this container.
  3. (Britain, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
  4. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.
  5. (slang) An old car that is not in good working order.
  6. (basketball, informal) The basket.
  7. (basketball, informal) A field goal.
  8. (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
  9. (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
  10. (informal, chiefly plural) A large amount of liquid.
  11. A bucket bag.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
  2. (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
  3. (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
  4. (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
  5. (computing) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
  6. (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
  7. (transitive, Britain, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
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