bucketload

noun

buck·​et·​load ˈbə-kət-ˌlōd 

plural bucketloads

1

: a quantity that fills a bucket : bucketful

a bucketload of water

2

informal : a very large amount

The Spooky Season may be associated with scary movies and scoring candy by the bucketload …

—Jack Beresford

… lovable bad boys, which it seemed to produce by the bucketload.

—Jon Fine

—often used in plural

Growing up in the rural South, summer meant bucketloads of fresh vegetables.

—Alicia Ross

… did people expect to make bucketloads of money off independent movies back then?

—Anne Stockwell

Examples of bucketload in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Silver Talon boast a trio of six-string virtuosos to deliver them by the bucketload. —Brad Sanders, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023

Currently, bucketloads of the buoyant algae are washing up on beaches on the eastern coast of Florida earlier in the year than usual, raising scientists’ concerns for what coming months will bring. —Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023

Investors, by now desperate for signs of an easing of pandemic restrictions, gobbled up the rumor by the bucketload. —Mary Hui, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing bucketload

• by the bucketload