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  • present tense form of bucket (3rd person singular).
  • plural of bucket.
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buckets

NOUN
container, often for liquids, with handle
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The 36-year-old tower crane operator in Nashville, Tenn., who works 12-hour shifts, helps lift and move rebar and buckets of concrete from a perch often hundreds of feet in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Maykel Aguilar, 30, patiently filled a 200-liter tank and several buckets at a pipe connected to a spring on a street in the capital's old town.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Neighbors line up in the same spot, marking their place with tanks, buckets and jerrycans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

He pulled out his phone and recorded himself dumping fat streams of quarters into collection buckets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

We handed the buckets to Karl, and he threw the water at the fire.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson


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