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RAIN BUCKETS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rain buckets mean? 

RAIN BUCKETS (verb)
  The verb RAIN BUCKETS has 1 sense:

1. rain heavilyplay

  Familiarity information: RAIN BUCKETS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RAIN BUCKETS (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Rain heavily

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

pelt; pour; rain buckets; rain cats and dogs; stream

Context example:

Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!

Hypernyms (to "rain buckets" is one way to...):

rain; rain down (precipitate as rain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rain buckets"):

sheet (come down as if in sheets)

sluice; sluice down (pour as if from a sluice)

Sentence frame:

It is ----ing

Sentence example:

It was rain bucketsing all day long


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