"bucket down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bucket down.ogg Forms: buckets down [present, singular, third-person], bucketing down [participle, present], bucketed down [participle, past], bucketed down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bucket down (third-person singular simple present buckets down, present participle bucketing down, simple past and past participle bucketed down)
  1. (idiomatic) To rain heavily. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Rain Translations (rain heavily): sataa kaatamalla (Finnish), pleuvoir à seaux (French), dégringoler (French), pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse [colloquial] (French), pleuvoir des cordes [informal] (French), კოკისპირული წვიმა (ḳoḳisṗiruli c̣vima) (Georgian), ざあざあ雨が降る (zāzā ame ga furu) (Japanese), llover a cántaros (Spanish), caer chuzos de punta (Spanish), caer a plomo (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "rain heavily",
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          "sense": "rain heavily",
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          "code": "es",
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      "sense": "rain heavily",
      "word": "sataa kaatamalla"
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      "sense": "rain heavily",
      "word": "pleuvoir à seaux"
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      "sense": "rain heavily",
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      "sense": "rain heavily",
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      "sense": "rain heavily",
      "word": "ざあざあ雨が降る"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rain heavily",
      "word": "llover a cántaros"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rain heavily",
      "word": "caer chuzos de punta"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "rain heavily",
      "word": "caer a plomo"
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