bucket
noun
[ ˈbʌkɪt ]
• a roughly cylindrical open container with a handle, made of metal or plastic and used to hold and carry liquids.
• "a bucket and spade"
• a unit of data that can be transferred from a backing store in a single operation.
bucket
verb
• rain heavily.
• "it was still bucketing down"
Similar:
rain heavily,
rain cats and dogs,
rain hard,
pour,
pelt,
lash,
teem,
stream,
tip,
beat,
sheet,
• (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily.
• "the car came bucketing out of a side road"
Similar:
speed,
hurry,
race,
run,
sprint,
dash,
bolt,
dart,
rush,
hasten,
hurtle,
career,
streak,
shoot,
whizz,
zoom,
go like lightning,
go hell for leather,
spank along,
bowl along,
rattle along,
whirl,
whoosh,
buzz,
swoop,
flash,
blast,
charge,
stampede,
gallop,
sweep,
hare,
fly,
wing,
scurry,
scud,
scutter,
scramble,
belt,
pelt,
tear,
hotfoot it,
zap,
zip,
whip,
scoot,
scorch,
burn rubber,
go like a bat out of hell,
bomb,
shift,
put one's foot down,
go like the clappers,
leg it,
wheech,
clip,
boogie,
hightail,
barrel,
lay rubber,
get the lead out,
fleet,
post,
hie,
drive,
drag/tear/haul ass,
Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet ‘tub, pail’, perhaps from Old English būc ‘belly, pitcher’.
