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buckethead

buckethead noun: a stupid or oblivious person.

Noun

buckethead (plural bucketheads)

  1. A stupid or oblivious person.
    • We were real bucketheads and we've got to make up for a lot of lost time. Even if we didn't know enough about the Communist conspiracy in those days to get out from behind the front organizations, then we certainly should have brains enough now to make amends by taking an active part in the...1955, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 80, page 109
    • So he held his fingers up, V for victory. Something those bucketheads ought to understand.1997, James W. Hall, Buzz Cut, →ISBN, page 373
  2. One who eats or drinks by the bucketful.
    • Most of the guests were out on the front lawn, guzzling away, real bucketheads.1992, Lee Grove, Drowning, →ISBN, page 175
  3. One who wears a bucket or bucket-like object on his or her head.
    • Between this weather and the bucketheads, it's tough for a guy to find a spot of shade."1992, James Luceno, Mata Hari Affair, →ISBN, page 44
    • The needs of our lumbering bucketheads dictated we go in close.2007, Michael Z. Williamson, The Weapon, →ISBN, page 257

Examples of buckethead in a sentence

  • We were real bucketheads and we've got to make up for a lot of lost time.1955, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 80, page 109:
  • She wondered if she wasn't fighting a losing battle anyway, trying to educate bucketheads.1999, Julie Anne Peters, Love Me, Love My Broccoli, →ISBN, page 60:
  • “I wish you were a buckethead,” the troll said.2011, Christopher M. Dulabone, Melody Grandy, Greg Hunter, Bucketheads in Oz, →ISBN, page 126:

Forms of buckethead

pluralbucketheads

Questions about buckethead

What does buckethead mean?
Buckethead means a stupid or oblivious person.
How do you use buckethead in a sentence?
We were real bucketheads and we've got to make up for a lot of lost time.
What part of speech is buckethead?
Buckethead is a noun.
What is the plural of buckethead?
The plural of buckethead is bucketheads.

Words near buckethead in the dictionary

  1. bucketeers
  2. bucketer
  3. bucketers
  4. bucketful
  5. bucketfuls
  6. buckethead
  7. bucketheads
  8. bucketing
  9. bucketing about
  10. bucketing down
  11. bucketings

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