bucket out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The New York Knicks were within an inch of pulling off a basketball miracle, climbing bucket by bucket out of a 29-point deficit in the second half.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
“We have a bee bucket out, just back behind there,” Marini says, pointing to a patch of scrub.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024
"But at night, it's a bucket out back for you to piss in."
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2022
I grabbed a bucket out of the place where the effluent was from where they washed the clinic.
From Reuters • Nov. 29, 2012
Misha pushed the goat away idly and lifted up the bucket out of their reach.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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