"bucket and spade" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: buckets and spades [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|buckets and spades}} bucket and spade (plural buckets and spades)
  1. A child's toy, consisting of a (usually plastic) bucket and spade, used for building simple sandcastles at the beach. Synonyms: bucket-and-spade [attributive, especially], pail and shovel [North-America] Translations (child's toy): balde e pá (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-bucket_and_spade-en-noun-3LvZhn1u Categories (other): English coordinated pairs, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 62 38 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 62 38 Disambiguation of "child's toy": 100 0
  2. (attributive) Denoting traditional seaside leisure activities. Tags: attributive
    Sense id: en-bucket_and_spade-en-noun-W4HuCrWJ Categories (other): English coordinated pairs Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 53 47

Inflected forms

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