bitbucket

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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.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounbitbucket (plural bitbuckets)

plural bitbuckets

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bit bucket.
verbbitbucket (third-person singular simple present bitbuckets, present participle bitbucketing, simple past and past participle bitbucketed)

present singular third person bitbuckets · participle present bitbucketing · participle past bitbucketed · past bitbucketed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bit bucket.

    I think the only good form of email address munging is a plussed email address as I have in this message. While I am not automatically bitbucketing email addressed in this way, it does keep it from hitting my inbox and demanding my immediate attention.

    1997 September 30, Matthew N. Dodd, “Anti-spam e-mail addresses”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet)
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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