"bucketload" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bucketloads [plural]
Etymology: From bucket + load. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bucket|load}} bucket + load Head templates: {{en-noun}} bucketload (plural bucketloads)
  1. As much as a bucket can hold
    Sense id: en-bucketload-en-noun-RwDvkqsF
  2. (informal) A large amount. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-bucketload-en-noun-bHaDYSA0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 96 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 96 Synonyms: abundance, arseload [UK, slang, vulgar], assload [US, slang, vulgar], bellyload, boatload [slang], brimful, busload, bucketful [informal], bucketload, butt-ton, bumload [UK, slang], buttload [British, US, dated], cartload, crapload, deal, fuckload [slang, vulgar], fuckton [slang, vulgar], fuckwad [slang, vulgar], great deal [idiomatic], hantle [British, dialectal], heap, hecatomb [figuratively, literary, poetic], helluvalot, horseload, lashings [Ireland, UK, informal], load, lot, mampus [British, dialectal], many, mass, metric fuckton [slang, vulgar], metric shitload [slang, vulgar], mickle [Northern-England, Scotland, archaic], mountain, muckle [Scotland], multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload [euphemistic, slang], shitful [slang, vulgar], shitload [slang, vulgar], shitton [slang, vulgar], sight, slew, spadeloads, sum, superflux, ton, trainload [slang], truckload, tun, vaultful [figuratively], wagonload
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: bucketful

Inflected forms

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