bucket brigade

noun

The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.

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human chain
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Meanings

nounbucket brigade (plural bucket brigades)

plural bucket brigades

  1. The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.

    Synonyms: human chain

  2. broadlyfigurativelyAny process in which something is passed along a chain.
  3. businessA discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.

Similar
human chain
Also see
bucket linehuman chain

Translations

German Eimerkette, Löschkette
  • Eimerketteline of people who pass buckets of water
  • Löschketteline of people who pass buckets of water
  • Eimerkettenspeicherelectronics: discrete-time analogue delay line
Polish żywy łańcuch, łańcuch
  • żywy łańcuchline of people who pass buckets of water
  • łańcuchany process in which something is passed along a chain
  • układ wiadrowyelectronics: discrete-time analogue delay line
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APA

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MLA

“bucket brigade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucket%20brigade. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bucket brigade,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucket%20brigade.

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