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bucket brigade

 
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–noun
1. a line of persons formed to extinguish a fire by passing on buckets of water quickly from a distant source.
2. any group of persons who cooperate to help cope with an emergency.
Origin:
1910–15
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bucket brigade  
n.  A line of people formed to fight a fire by passing buckets of water from a source to the fire.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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