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sleaze-bucket

sleaze-bucket is the alternative form of sleazebucket.

Meaning of sleazebucket

Noun

sleazebucket (plural sleazebuckets)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A term of abuse: someone who is disgusting, vulgar, and sleazy.
    • He bought cops like this sleazebucket, bought juries, bought witnesses, bought loyalty.2008, Roxanne St. Claire, Then You Hide, page 5
  2. (derogatory, slang) Anything sleazy, vulgar, and disgusting.
    • Such hypocrisy hit Upfront like spiked Kool-Aid recently when Tribune TV critic Gary Deeb began his column: "ABC, the sleazebucket network that has made hundreds of millions of dollars in the last few years by exploiting the cruelest and most antisocial instincts of the mass television audience...1979, “Guyana: A question of taste”, in Chicago, volume 28, page 14
    1. (derogatory, slang) A lousy, disreputable, or disgusting place.
      • It's a typical sleazebucket of a place—broken-down bed, filthy floor, and a cracked mirror.1995, Faye Kellerman, “Bonding”, in Bill Pronzini, Jack Adrian, editor, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, page 477

Forms of sleaze-bucket

pluralsleaze-buckets

Questions about sleaze-bucket

What is sleaze-bucket the alternative form of?
Sleaze-bucket is the alternative form of sleazebucket.

Words near sleaze-bucket in the dictionary

  1. sleaze
  2. sleaze bucket
  3. sleaze buckets
  4. sleaze factor
  5. sleaze factors
  6. sleaze-bucket
  7. sleaze-buckets
  8. sleaze-merchant
  9. sleaze-merchants
  10. sleaze-ridden
  11. sleazebag

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