To Bucket

1. (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
2. (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
3. (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
4. (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
5. (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
6. (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
7. (transitive, Britain, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Synonyms

• (rain heavily): chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs
• (travel very quickly): hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz, book it