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rust-bucket

rust-bucket is the alternative form of rustbucket.

Meaning of rustbucket

Noun

rustbucket (plural rustbuckets)

  1. (slang) An old, neglected vehicle, usually a car, a freighter, or a truck.
    • That sagging old rustbucket is designed like a garbage scow!1967, David Gerrold, The Trouble with Tribbles, spoken by Korax

Forms of rust-bucket

pluralrust-buckets

Questions about rust-bucket

What is rust-bucket the alternative form of?
Rust-bucket is the alternative form of rustbucket.

Words near rust-bucket in the dictionary

  1. rust off
  2. rust out
  3. rust through
  4. rust-belt
  5. rust-belts
  6. rust-bucket
  7. rust-buckets
  8. rust-free
  9. rust-proof
  10. rust-proofed
  11. rust-proofing

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