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buck⋅et

  [buhk-it] noun, verb, -et⋅ed, -et⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
2. anything resembling or suggesting this.
3. Machinery.
a. any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.
b. the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.
c. a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.
4. (in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
5. a bucketful: a bucket of sand.
6. Basketball.
a. Informal. field goal.
b. the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
7. bucket seat.
8. Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.
–verb (used with object)
9. to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often fol. by up or out).
10. Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.
11. to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.
–verb (used without object)
12. Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry.
—Idioms
13. drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested: The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.
14. drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
15. kick the bucket, Slang. to die: His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME buket < AF < OE bucc (var. of būc vessel, belly; c. G Bauch) + OF -et -et

Regional variation note:
Though both bucket and pail are used throughout the entire U.S., pail has its greatest use in the Northern U.S., and bucket is more commonly used elsewhere, esp. in the Midland and Southern U.S.
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kick   (kĭk)   
v.   kicked, kick·ing, kicks

v.   intr.

  1. To strike out with the foot or feet.

  2. Sports

    1. To score or gain ground by kicking a ball.

    2. To punt in football.

    3. To propel the body in swimming by moving the legs, as with a flutter kick or frog kick.

    4. To express negative feelings vigorously; complain.

    5. To oppose by argument; protest.

  3. To recoil: The powerful rifle kicked upon being fired.

  4. Informal

    1. To express negative feelings vigorously; complain.

    2. To oppose by argument; protest.

v.   tr.

  1. To strike with the foot.

  2. To propel by striking with the foot.

  3. To spring back against suddenly: The rifle kicked my shoulder when I fired it.

  4. Sports To score (a goal or point) by kicking a ball.

n.  

    1. A vigorous blow with the foot.

    2. Sports The motion of the legs that propels the body in swimming.

    3. A feeling of pleasurable stimulation: got a kick out of the show.

    4. kicks Fun: went bowling just for kicks.

    5. The act or an instance of kicking a ball.

    6. A kicked ball.

    7. The distance spanned by a kicked ball.

  2. A jolting recoil: a rifle with a heavy kick.

  3. Slang A complaint; a protest.

  4. Slang Power; force: a car engine with a lot of kick.

  5. Slang

    1. A feeling of pleasurable stimulation: got a kick out of the show.

    2. kicks Fun: went bowling just for kicks.

    3. The act or an instance of kicking a ball.

    4. A kicked ball.

    5. The distance spanned by a kicked ball.

  6. Slang Temporary, often obsessive interest: I'm on a science fiction kick.

  7. Slang A sudden, striking surprise; a twist.

  8. Sports

    1. The act or an instance of kicking a ball.

    2. A kicked ball.

    3. The distance spanned by a kicked ball.

  9. To treat badly; abuse.

  10. To move from place to place: "spent the next three years in Italy, kicking around the country on a motor scooter" (Charles E. Claffey).

  11. To give thought or consideration to; ponder or discuss.

  12. To recoil unexpectedly and violently.

  13. Informal To take it easy; relax: kicked back at home and watched TV.

  14. Slang To return (stolen items).

  15. Slang To pay a kickback.

  16. Informal To contribute (one's share): kicked in a few dollars for the office party.

  17. Informal To become operative or take effect: "His pituitary kicked in, and his growth was suddenly vertical" (Kenneth Browser).

  18. Slang To die.

  19. Sports To begin or resume play with a kickoff.

  20. Informal To begin; start: kicked off the promotional tour with a press conference.

  21. Slang To die.

  22. To increase in amount or force; intensify: A sandstorm kicked up while we drove through the desert.

  23. To stir up (trouble): kicked up a row.

  24. To show signs of disorder: His ulcer has kicked up again.

Phrasal Verb(s):
kick aboutTo move from place to place.
kick around Informal

  1. To treat badly; abuse.

  2. To move from place to place: "spent the next three years in Italy, kicking around the country on a motor scooter" (Charles E. Claffey).

  3. To give thought or consideration to; ponder or discuss.

kick back

  1. To recoil unexpectedly and violently.

  2. Informal To take it easy; relax: kicked back at home and watched TV.

  3. Slang To return (stolen items).

  4. Slang To pay a kickback.

kick in

  1. Informal To contribute (one's share): kicked in a few dollars for the office party.

  2. Informal To become operative or take effect: "His pituitary kicked in, and his growth was suddenly vertical" (Kenneth Browser).

  3. Slang To die.

kick off

  1. Sports To begin or resume play with a kickoff.

  2. Informal To begin; start: kicked off the promotional tour with a press conference.

  3. Slang To die.

kick out Slang To throw out; dismiss.
kick overTo begin to fire: The engine finally kicked over.
kick up Informal

  1. To increase in amount or force; intensify: A sandstorm kicked up while we drove through the desert.

  2. To stir up (trouble): kicked up a row.

  3. To show signs of disorder: His ulcer has kicked up again.


Idiom(s):
kick ass/butt Vulgar Slang To take forceful or harsh measures to achieve an objective.

Idiom(s):
kick the bucket Slang To die.

Idiom(s):
kick the habit Slang To free oneself of an addiction, as to narcotics or cigarettes.

Idiom(s):
kick up (one's) heels Informal To cast off one's inhibitions and have a good time.

Idiom(s):
kick upstairs Slang To promote to a higher yet less desirable position.

[Middle English kiken, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
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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Cultural Dictionary

kick the bucket

To die: “Scarcely anyone was sorry when the old tyrant finally kicked the bucket.”

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
bucket

  1. n.
    the goal (hoop and net) in basketball. (Sports.) : Freddy arced one at the bucket and missed.
  2. n.
    a hoop or basket in basketball. (Sports.) : Four buckets in two minutes. Is that a record, or what?
  3. n.
    the buttocks. (See also can.) : Sam's getting a real fat bucket, isn't he?
  4. n.
    an old car. (From bucket of bolts.) : How much did you pay for that old bucket?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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kick the bucket

  1. tv.
    to die. : I'm too young to kick the bucket!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bucket 
1248, from Anglo-Norm. buquet "bucket, pail," infl. by or dim. of O.E. buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," orig. "belly" (buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), from P.Gmc. *bukaz, from PIE root *bhou-, variant of base *bheu- "to grow, swell." Kick the bucket (1785) perhaps is from unrelated O.Fr. buquet "balance," a beam from which slaughtered animals were hung; perhaps reinforced by the notion of suicide by hanging.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

kick the bucket

Die, as in All of my goldfish kicked the bucket while we were on vacation. This moderately impolite usage has a disputed origin. Some say it refers to committing suicide by hanging, in which one stands on a bucket, fastens a rope around one's neck, and kicks the bucket away. A more likely origin is the use of bucket in the sense of "a beam from which something may be suspended" because pigs were suspended by their heels from such beams after being slaughtered, the term kick the bucket came to mean "to die." [Colloquial; late 1700s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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