gutbucket

gut-bucket

1. offensive slang A derogatory term for a fat or obese person. We left the bar when we realized it was seedy and filled with nothing but old gut-buckets looking for easy women.
2. A free-spirited style of jazz or blues music. The band surprised the audience by playing a few of their songs in a gut-bucket style.
3. A stringed instrument used in folk music that is made from a metal washtub . Grandpop brought out his old gut-bucket and started playing folk songs beside the fire.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gutbucket

(ˈgətbəkɪt)
1. n. a chamber pot, especially one used in a prison cell. (see also gash bucket.) You got something around here I can use as a gutbucket?
2. n. a toilet; a makeshift toilet. Where’s the gutbucket around here?
3. n. the stomach. Sam poked Pete right in the gutbucket.
4. n. a fat person, usually a man. Look at the gutbucket waddling down the street.
5. n. a cheap saloon; a low tavern. his head off. The pinstriper needed a drink so bad he stopped at one of those gutbuckets on Maple Street.
6. n. an earthy style of music. You don’t hear much gutbucket in public places these days.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • gut-bucket
  • foundry
  • nut factory
  • nut-foundry
  • nuthatch
  • nuthouse
  • saltine
  • latrino
  • nuttery
  • Queens
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Scott Hoch: Scowling middle-aged gutbucket. Notoriously unpopular with European golfers.
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