bucket
photo credit: "Abandoned rusty car seen in Puerto Iguazú, Argentina." by Ralf Steinberger (CC-BY-2.0) Definition: (noun) Old car in poor condition
Example: Sam wasn’t worried that the parking valet would take his car out for a ride while he was eating dinner – it was a real bucket.
Quote:
“Everybody has had a bucket in their life”
Ugly people can get a new look on the reality show Extreme Makeover. People with ugly houses can get a new look on TV’s Trading Spaces. But what about ugly cars?
MTV’s Pimp My Ride is a makeover show of the strangest sort. The show’s title comes from the word ride, meaning a car, and pimp (prostitutes’ manager), a profession associated with expensive and flashy automobiles. Xzibit takes lucky guests’ buckets to West Coast Customs car shop where they are not just repaired, but made into amazing machines outfitted with special accessories. One car got a remote control camera so the owner could take pictures while driving, and a pickup truck on the show got a ping pong table installed in the back.
Hoopty (sometimes hooptie) is a another word for bucket often heard in rap music, such as 50 Cent’s 21 Questions. Older synonyms include the vintage tin lizzie (1910s) and struggle-buggy (1920s), as well as my personal favorite from later in the twentieth century, crapmobile.
A. C. Kemp | June 17, 2004
