bit-bucket

A form of bit bucket — A container for holding chad (“small punched-out pieces of paper”) from paper tape or punch cards used with teleprinters, early computers, and other machines.

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Meanings

nounbit-bucket (plural bit-buckets)

plural bit-buckets

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bit bucket.

    Fortunately, "RTM" [Robert Tappan Morris] was not out to deliberately cause damage. What would have happened if he had been? Millions of dollars in time and research data gone into the bit-bucket?

    1990 February 17, W. Paul Blase, “No harmless hacker he”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2017
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APA

bit-bucket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bit-bucket

MLA

“bit-bucket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bit-bucket. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bit-bucket,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bit-bucket.

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