Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

great bit bucket in the sky

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English

Syllables: great bit buck-et in the sky
IPA

43

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

2

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of bit bucket (“notional resting place of lost or missing digital information”).

Humorous; Slang; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"You cannot interrupt it by pressing Esc or Ctrl-Break, and if you use brute force to stop it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or by turning off the machine, your data will disappear into the great bit-bucket in the sky. Most other disk packers guard against accidental data loss by keeping a spare copy of a cluster ondisk while transferring another copy from one part of the disk to another."
"So a file named a.doc or files 1.doc through 9.doc would be sent to the great bit bucket in the sky; however, a file named 10.doc, because it has two characters in the file name, would not be affected by the previous command, which may not have been your intention."

Usage

Inflected Forms

the great bit bucket in the sky (canonical)

Synonyms

bit bucket

Questions

What does great bit bucket in the sky mean?: Synonym of bit bucket (“notional resting place of lost or missing digital information”).

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