Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bucket brigade

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables
buck-et bri-gade
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.

noun

Any process in which something is passed along a chain.

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What does bucket brigade mean?
The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.

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