buckethead

English edit

Noun edit

buckethead (plural bucketheads)

Alternative form of bucket head
1. A stupid or oblivious person.
  - 1955, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 80, page 109:
    We were real bucketheads and we've got to make up for a lot of lost time. Even if we didn't know enough about the Communist conspiracy in those days to get out from behind the front organizations, then we certainly should have brains enough now to make amends by taking an active part in the present-day endeavors dedicated to exposing and destroying the Fifth Column in our professions.
  - 1997, James W. Hall, Buzz Cut, →ISBN, page 373:
    So he held his fingers up, V for victory. Something those bucketheads ought to understand.
  - 1999, Julie Anne Peters, Love Me, Love My Broccoli, →ISBN, page 60:
    Maybe she could just step up her letter-writing campaign to the newspapers. She wondered if she wasn't fighting a losing battle anyway, trying to educate bucketheads.
2. One who eats or drinks by the bucketful.
  - 1992, Lee Grove, Drowning, →ISBN, page 175:
    Most of the guests were out on the front lawn, guzzling away, real bucketheads.
3. One who wears a bucket or bucket-like object on his or her head.
  - 1992, James Luceno, Mata Hari Affair, →ISBN, page 44:
    Between this weather and the bucketheads, it's tough for a guy to find a spot of shade."
  - 2007, Michael Z. Williamson, The Weapon, →ISBN, page 257:
    The needs of our lumbering bucketheads dictated we go in close.
  - 2011, Christopher M. Dulabone, Melody Grandy, Greg Hunter, Bucketheads in Oz, →ISBN, page 126:
    “I wish you were a buckethead,” the troll said. "Then we could carry some water."