Meanings
nounmonsoon bucket (plural monsoon buckets)
plural monsoon buckets
- Synonym of helicopter bucket.
Perhaps Gavin Buttery is the one you knew better, killed by a monsoon bucket during the scrub fires behind the city.
2014, Owen Marshall, A Many Coated ManSynonyms: helicopter bucket
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of helicopter bucket.
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Origin
From a trade name.
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APA
monsoon bucket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsoon%20bucket
MLA
“monsoon bucket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsoon%20bucket. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monsoon bucket,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsoon%20bucket.
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