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bucket down

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bucketed down; bucketing down; buckets down

Definition of bucket down

British, informal
: to rain very heavily The rain is really bucketing down.

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“Bucket down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bucket%20down. Accessed 9 Aug. 2022.

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