bucketload
noun
buck·et·load ˈbə-kət-ˌlōd 
plural bucketloads
1
: a quantity that fills a bucket : bucketful
a bucketload of water
2
informal : a very large amount
—often used in plural
The Spooky Season may be associated with scary movies and scoring candy by the bucketload …—
Jack Beresford
Jack Beresford
… lovable bad boys, which it seemed to produce by the bucketload.—Jon Fine
Jon Fine
Growing up in the rural South, summer meant bucketloads of fresh vegetables.—Alicia Ross
Alicia Ross
… did people expect to make bucketloads of money off independent movies back then?—Anne Stockwell
Anne Stockwell
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The good times when Diavik produced diamonds by the bucketload. —Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026 Fried chicken is making American restaurants more money than ever, except at KFC -- the very place that pioneered selling it by the bucketload across the country. —Redd Brown Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025 The silence of the orchard is only broken by the song of blue jays and the loud chatter of Millet’s two nephews, harvesting bucketloads of Red Delicious. —Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025 And these investigations seem to have been substantially complete while state lawmakers were dumping taxpayer money by the billion-gallon bucketload into funds meant to stabilize companies that were screaming poverty in the wake of the 2018 and 2019 storm seasons. —Krys Fluker, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025 Filmmakers have been going to that well since there was film to make, and the world never has to wait long for a new bucketload to be drawn up from it. —Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024 And because no taproom can exist without a bucketload of hops these days, Match Point pours IPAs like Gilman Brewing’s Bad Tattoo and Epidemic Ales’ Pineapple Upside Down Cake. —John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024 Silver Talon boast a trio of six-string virtuosos to deliver them by the bucketload. —Brad Sanders, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023 Currently, bucketloads of the buoyant algae are washing up on beaches on the eastern coast of Florida earlier in the year than usual, raising scientists’ concerns for what coming months will bring. —Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
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Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026 Fried chicken is making American restaurants more money than ever, except at KFC -- the very place that pioneered selling it by the bucketload across the country. —Redd Brown Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025 The silence of the orchard is only broken by the song of blue jays and the loud chatter of Millet’s two nephews, harvesting bucketloads of Red Delicious. —Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025 And these investigations seem to have been substantially complete while state lawmakers were dumping taxpayer money by the billion-gallon bucketload into funds meant to stabilize companies that were screaming poverty in the wake of the 2018 and 2019 storm seasons. —Krys Fluker, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025 Filmmakers have been going to that well since there was film to make, and the world never has to wait long for a new bucketload to be drawn up from it. —Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024 And because no taproom can exist without a bucketload of hops these days, Match Point pours IPAs like Gilman Brewing’s Bad Tattoo and Epidemic Ales’ Pineapple Upside Down Cake. —John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024 Silver Talon boast a trio of six-string virtuosos to deliver them by the bucketload. —Brad Sanders, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023 Currently, bucketloads of the buoyant algae are washing up on beaches on the eastern coast of Florida earlier in the year than usual, raising scientists’ concerns for what coming months will bring. —Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
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