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Verb: bucket along
Usage: informal
  1. Move or travel very quickly
    "He bucketed along down the hall to receive his guests";
    - rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie [archaic], speed, race, pelt along [informal], rush along, belt along [informal], step on it [informal], travel rapidly, hurry, zip [informal], zoom, zoom along, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], bucket [informal], wing [informal], pelt [informal], barrel [informal], rocket [informal], belt [informal]

Derived forms: bucketing along, bucketed along, buckets along

Type of: go, locomote, move, travel