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bucket
noun- a jail US, 1894
- If anybody is found carrying a gun or blackjack, he will be tossed in the bucket. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 1, 30 August 1946
- A poor book can’t make a buck without making the bucket. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 16, 30 October 1957
- Those goddamn girls were gigglin, righteously laughin ... you know, “Ha, ha, that’s one of ’em.” So off I went to the bucket, for rape. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 17, 1966
- “Is Earl out of the bucket?” — Leonard Gardner, Fat City, p. 128, 1969
- But I really should be in the bucket with a lot of other guys. — Robert Byrne, McGoorty, p. 76, 1972
- — Los Angeles Times, p. B1, 19 December 1994
- a cell used for solitary confinement US
- — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 28, 1989
- the vagina UK
- Women’s genitalia were represented as (potential) containers (e.g., bucket, box, hair goblet), places to put things in (e.g., furry letterbox, disk drive, socket, slot), containers for semen (e.g., gism pot, spunk bin, honey pot), and containers for the penis/sex (e.g., willy warmer, wank shaft, shagbox). — Journal of Sex Research, p. 146, 2001
- the buttocks; the anus US, 1938
- — Ellen C. Bellone (Editor), Dictionary of Slang, p. 5, 1989
- a car US, 1939
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, Spring 1992
- [T]hey lurched onto Market Street in a brown Bonneville bucket. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 150, 1993
- a small car US
- There’s even street slang for stealing cars such as “new buckets are being splacked.” Buckets refer to small cars, susch as Dodge neons, and to splack is to steal a car using a screwdriver to break into the steering column and start it. — Tampa (Flordia) Tribune, p. 1, 6 May 2000
- a truck with a non-roofed container UK
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 153, 1981
- in hot rodding, the body of a roadster, especially one from the 1920s US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 24, 1965
- an engine cylinder US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 20, 1971
- in pool, a pocket that appears receptive to balls dropping US, 1988
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 36, 1993
- an impressive quantity of alcoholic drinks UK, 1985
From the original sense (a single glass of spirits). - If it wisnae [was not] for the prospect of a good bucket, I’d have no reason to get up in the morning! — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
- [S]tart running off at the mouth once they’ve had a bucket[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 31, 2000
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