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bucket


noun a small container (approx. 100 ml) of ice-cream. Compare dandy, dixie. Also, ice-cream bucket.

Contributor's comments: 'Tis a dixie in Tassie.

Contributor's comments: A bucket was a jug of mixed spirits that you could get for $5 at St Pauls Tavern in Brisbane.

Contributor's comments: Bucket means a car in bad condition, such as 'its an old bucket' or its a rust bucket. This is in north west NSW

Contributor's comments: I wonder if bucket was a brand name for a small tub of ice cream. Streets or Peters?

Contributor's comments: Ping-ponging between Perth and Melbourne as a little'un, I recall asking for a 'dixie' in the former city and having an overly indignant shopkeeper roar at me "It's a bucket! Don't you know the queen's English?". Yes, I still have scars...