bucketed

Verb

bucket (third-person singular simple present buckets, present participle bucketing, simple past and past participle bucketed)

1. (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
2. (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
   • to bucket water
3. (informal, intransitive) To rain heavily.
   • It’s really bucketing down out there.

   Synonyms:

   bucket down, chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs

4. (informal, intransitive) To travel very quickly.
   • The boat is bucketing along.

   Synonyms:

   hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz, book it

5. (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
6. (Australia, slang, transitive) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.

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