bucket brigades

A form of bucket brigade — 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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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of bucket brigade
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