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bucket out

British

verb

(tr) to empty out with or as if with a bucket

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Example Sentences

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“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

The man rolled up his pants before dropping down into ankle-deep waste to to pull the bucket out.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 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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