Bucket
Proper noun
Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
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‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’
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People used to call Pawtucket ‘the Bucket’. And it was a derogatory term. But you know what there are some artists who've taken that term ‘the Bucket’ and reinvigorated it and they actually sell shirts, ‘the Bucket’ shirts. They're proud of being from the Bucket
Rhode Island had a way of trapping its inhabitants like roaches that check in but can never escape. Pawtucket, The Bucket was especially gluey that way.
Word forms
the Bucket