bucket head
noun1
A stupid or oblivious person.
- Everything went dark and I heard Joan laughing and asking, “Hey, bucket head, how is it going?”2003, Charlie McCarthy, Trapped With Trouble, →ISBN, page 28:
- I rooted for him as he sweated out the beginning of a service period for a massive banquet at Versailles, ill-equipped, with only a rent-a-staff of indolent bucket heads to help him.2010, Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, →ISBN, page 196:
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- He just called people bucket heads when he thought that they did bucketheaded things.2016, Daniel Knowles, Disasters, Fires and Rescues, →ISBN:
- As all Australians know, Ned Kelly (1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880) was a bucket head, or should I say, he was the Robin Hood of bucket heads.2016, Mr. John, The Black Book, →ISBN:
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One who wears a bucket or a bucket-like object (such as a helmet) on their head.
- "Come on, we got some bucket heads to kill," Andrew said. Marc whispered, "Bucket heads?" "You know," Aaron said, "Storm troopers, bad guys with guns."1995, Nick Baron, Virtual Destruction, →ISBN, page 94:
- Soon an army of bucket heads filled the streets.2004, Derek Drymon, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, →ISBN, page 83:
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- Bucket heads down the alleyway off of West Fifteenth and Seventh.2015, R. J. Ellory, City of Lies: A Thriller, →ISBN:
- “Apparently the bucket heads took off in great haste and knocked a couple of rotorchairs out of the sky as they went.2015, Mark Hodder, The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats, →ISBN:
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One who eats or drinks by the bucketful.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bucket, head.