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brain-bucket

brain-bucket is the alternative form of brain bucket.

Meaning of brain bucket

Noun

brain bucket (plural brain buckets)

  1. (humorous, idiomatic, sometimes) A protective helmet, as worn, for example, by a motorcyclist, bicyclist, or soldier in combat.
    • The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet) . . . .1956 August 13, “Education: Pigs Aren't Pigs”, in Time
  2. (dated) The skull; the head.
    • [H]e fetched me such a clip on top of my brain-bucket as to drive all my senses clear down into my boots.1856, Frederick W. Saunders, “A Yarn in The Long Boat”, in Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volume 4, number 4, page 326

Forms of brain-bucket

pluralbrain-buckets

Questions about brain-bucket

What is brain-bucket the alternative form of?
Brain-bucket is the alternative form of brain bucket.

Words near brain-bucket in the dictionary

  1. brain worm
  2. brain worms
  3. brain zap
  4. brain zaps
  5. brain-bending
  6. brain-bucket
  7. brain-buckets
  8. brain-cramp
  9. brain-cramps
  10. brain-damaged
  11. brain-dead

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