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bucket brigade

bucket brigade noun: the long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.

Noun

bucket brigade (plural bucket brigades)

  1. The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
    Synonyms:
    human chain
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Any process in which something is passed along a chain.
  3. A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.

Synonyms of bucket brigade

Forms of bucket brigade

pluralbucket brigades

Questions about bucket brigade

What does bucket brigade mean?
Bucket brigade means the long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
What part of speech is bucket brigade?
Bucket brigade is a noun.
What is the plural of bucket brigade?
The plural of bucket brigade is bucket brigades.

Words near bucket brigade in the dictionary

  1. bucket and spade
  2. bucket bag
  3. bucket bags
  4. bucket bong
  5. bucket bongs
  6. bucket brigade
  7. bucket brigades
  8. bucket chemistry
  9. bucket down
  10. bucket drummer
  11. bucket drummers

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