Bucket vs. Hooptie — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bucket and Hooptie
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Definitions
Bucket
A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container.
Hooptie
(slang) An old, worn-out car.
Bucket
A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.
Bucket
The amount that a bucket can hold
One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.
Bucket
A unit of dry measure in the US Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
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Bucket
A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material.
Bucket
(Basketball) A basket.
Bucket
To hold, carry, or put in a bucket
Bucket up water from a well.
Bucket
To ride (a horse) long and hard.
Bucket
To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily
Bucketing over the unpaved lane.
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Bucket
To make haste; hustle.
Bucket
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
Bucket
The amount held in this container.
Bucket
A large amount of liquid.
Bucket
A great deal of anything.
Bucket
A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
Bucket
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
Bucket
An insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
Bucket
(slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
Bucket
The basket.
Bucket
A field goal.
Bucket
(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
Bucket
(computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
Bucket
A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
Bucket
A bucket bag.
Bucket
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
Bucket
The pitcher in certain orchids.
Bucket
A helmet.
Bucket
(transitive) To place inside a bucket.
Bucket
(transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
Bucket
To rain heavily.
Bucket
To travel very quickly.
Bucket
(transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
Bucket
To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
Bucket
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
Bucket
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
Bucket
A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
Bucket
A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
Bucket
One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
Bucket
The valved piston of a lifting pump.
Bucket
One of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
Bucket
A bucketfull.
Bucket
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
Bucket
To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
Bucket
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
Bucket
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
Bucket
A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top
Bucket
The quantity contained in a bucket
Bucket
Put into a bucket
Bucket
Carry in a bucket
