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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. sleave
  2. sleaved
  3. sleaves
  4. sleaving
  5. sleaze
  6. sleaze bucket
  7. sleaze buckets
  8. sleaze factor
  9. sleaze factors
  10. sleaze-bucket
  11. sleaze-buckets

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