scut bucket

scut bucket

1. slang A receptacle in which the supplies needed for routine, tedious medical procedures are carried. The first thing you'll want to get when you start doing rounds is a scut bucket to carry things like sutures, IV lines, gauze, and so on.
2. vulgar slang A low, contemptible, sexually promiscuous person, especially a woman. It's all that scut bucket's fault for breaking up my marriage! Just because she's had a couple of boyfriends in a short span of time doesn't make her some kind of scut bucket.
See also: bucket, scut
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • scut
  • discharge (something) into (something)
  • discharge into
  • lost and found
  • lost-and-found
  • angle for farthings
  • farthing
  • chuck (something) in (to something)
  • chuck in
  • GI can
References in periodicals archive
I well remember darting up and down back stairs carrying the "scut bucket" on my surgery rotation, diligently retracting and applying suction in the operating room, interviewing and examining patients by myself in clinic, and performing blood draws to help my supervising interns.