the rain is bucketing (down)

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• bucket down — ˈbucket ˌdown [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they bucket down he/she/it buckets down present participle bucketing down past tense …   Useful english dictionary

• bucket down — PHRASAL VERB If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily. [BRIT, INFORMAL] [V P] As soon as we were inside, the rain began to bucket down... [it V P with n] If it hadn t been bucketing down with rain and… …   English dictionary

• bucket down — Verb. To rain heavily. The past tense is bucketing down …   English slang and colloquialisms

• bucket — I. n 1. a pejorative or humorous term for a car or boat 2. British the mouth. In this sense the word is typically heard in working class speech in such phrases as shut your bucket! or stick this in your bucket! , recorded in the mid 1990s. 3.… …   Contemporary slang

• bucket — /ˈbʌkət / (say bukuht) noun 1. a vessel, usually round with flat bottom and a semicircular handle, for carrying water, sand, etc. 2. anything resembling or suggesting this. 3. one of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain… …  

• bucket — buck|et1 S2 [ˈbʌkıt] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Anglo French; Origin: buket, from Old English buc container for pouring liquid, belly ] 1.) an open container with a handle, used for carrying and holding things, especially liquids = ↑pail 2.) also… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• bucket — [[t]bʌ̱kɪt[/t]] buckets, bucketing, bucketed 1) N COUNT A bucket is a round metal or plastic container with a handle attached to its sides. Buckets are often used for holding and carrying water. We drew water in a bucket from the well outside the …   English dictionary

• bucket — n. & v. n. 1 a a roughly cylindrical open container, esp. of metal, with a handle, used for carrying, drawing, or holding water etc. b the amount contained in this (need three buckets to fill the bath). 2 (in pl.) large quantities of liquid, esp …   Useful english dictionary

• bucket — noun 1》 a cylindrical open container with a handle, used to carry liquids.     ↘a compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel.     ↘the scoop of a dredger or grain elevator, or one attached to the front of a digger or tractor. 2》 (buckets)… …   English new terms dictionary