to bucket
1
8.4
- verb
- /ˈbʌkɪt/
- UK
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- So how did I just go from sweating buckets to shaking uncontrollably?
- rain was bucketing down
Examples
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They hit the atmosphere hard, bucketing, headed down and straight rather than in the more leisurely curve, but they were gauged for time, not comfort.
Fiction book (1990) -
I had intended to take the NEX-7 to somewhere spectacular at lunchtime to finish my rediscovery of it, but it has bucketed down with rain all day in London today.
Blog text (2) -
It's going to bucket down in a minute.
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The spring rains bucketed down, turning the dirt to mud.
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The rain buckets down.
Fiction book (1996) -
It kind of just looks like your hair is so clean and fresh, even though I just sweat buckets and got out of a body shower.
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Several blocks down, he veered into an alley, bucketing along until he'd pulled into the graveled parking lot behind a small store.
Fiction book (1999) -
To have slipped away from Glasgow so surely, and now to bucket down Clydesdale with the last of the afternoon sun bouncing over his shoulder, and the hills of the Ettrick Forest opening up to the southwest.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's bucketing down outside, so don't forget your umbrella.
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During the storm, it was bucketing down for hours.
Synonyms
8
5.5
To fall very hard, usually about rain
3
5.9
To rain very hard
1
6.5
To rain very hard
1
5.6
To pour a lot of water from the sky
1
8.0
To fall heavily in a wide stream, as rain or snow
To rain very heavily with water falling fast and hard
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
15
4.9
A very small amount that does not help with a much larger problem
A joking idea that deleted digital files are gone forever
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Informal
1
9.6
Something very tasty that makes people's mouths water, or a creature that lets liquid run from its mouth
- Specialized
A bucket used to lift mud and sand from the bottom of a river or harbour
How Heavy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The informal verb bucket meaning to rain very heavily is an image-based use: a helpful way to remember it is to imagine rain pouring as if someone tipped a giant bucket over the sky.