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brain buckets

brain buckets is the plural 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

Questions about brain buckets

What is brain buckets the plural of?
Brain buckets is the plural of brain bucket.

Words near brain buckets in the dictionary

  1. brain blast
  2. brain bleach
  3. brain bleed
  4. brain bleeds
  5. brain bucket
  6. brain buckets
  7. brain cancer
  8. brain cancers
  9. brain candy
  10. brain cell
  11. brain cells

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