gut-bucket

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:
  • gutbucket
  • foundry
  • nut factory
  • nut-foundry
  • nuthatch
  • nuthouse
  • saltine
  • latrino
  • nuttery
  • Queens
References in periodicals archive
They bashed out the hits with youthful zeal, and Jake Burns has lost none of his gut-bucket delivery.
How about portable weigh-bridges operated by Gut-Bucket Police lest the mothers' unhealthy eating leads to offspring developing Type 2 Diabetes - far more prevalent than lung cancer?
Then Martha's love for her husband begins to fade as quickly as her hatred rises for the gut-bucket music played by her brother, Lightfoot.
And, as we'll come to in a minute, the hefty portions would surely please any gut-bucket, wobblebottomed Yank.
One of the bands at that festival, New England's preeminent purveyors of gut-bucket deep blues and veterans of numerous Worcester performances, The Ten Foot Polecats, will open for Mr.
This walking gut-bucket devours 20,000 calories a day, about eight times what the average bloke needs to tick over.
At the same time he has recorded albums of gut-bucket blues (The Delivery Man) and New Orleans jazz (The River in Reverse).
Though not as successful as their debut (sales of "Sly" generated enough income for Brunswick to buy out its distribution contract with Decca and become independent), Record and Davis's direction insured the album's quality, perfectly balancing the raw, edgy gut-bucket blues style of lead singer Lowrell Simon (who had a later solo hit with the heavily sampled "Mellow, Mellow Right On" in 1979) with candied string arrangements on ballads ("All In the Course of A Day") and smoothed-out jazz charts on others ("This Is The Lost Generation," which includes a guitar-led instrumental version as well).
"He combined traditional gospel, blues and real Black American gut-bucket into a musical innovation that became soul, funk rap and hip-hop.
The group's press materials describe the Portland-based opera as "gut-bucket swing, Arabic belly dance, tangos, Ukrainian folk-punk ballads, klezmer and vigorous originals min- gle(d) with absurdist, bohemian, neoclassical and European cabaret style - all played with skill, exuberance and a gritty vagabond edge."
Between meals ( not that there was much time as they were constantly munching ( the gut-bucket family polished off 48 cakes, dozens of doughnuts and washed it down with 36 cans of Coke.
Intake 2,000 calories a day, output 2,000 calories a day, result six-pack; intake 3,000 calories a day, output 1,000 calories a day, result gut-bucket!
``Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Adamsville's favourite gut-bucket, the hungry hippo himself, Mr.
Formed in 1996, the NMA spring from the down-home Fat Possum Records end of the market, their debut album Shake Hands With Shorty drawing heavily on this gut-bucket tradition, featuring songs by Mississippi Fred McDowell, R L Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.
We saw a wonderfully willing filly shrug off a sea of troubles to land her second Champion Stakes; a benchmark gut-bucket enter the inner sanctum of super handicappers by becoming the oldest horse to win a Cesarewitch, and had that priceless promise of possible greatness to come when an unbeaten colt was a convincing winner of the Dewhurst.