gutbucket

gutbucket
[“gatbakit]
1. n. a chamber pot, especially one used in a prison cell. (See also gash bucket.)
You got something around here I can use as a gutbucket? D I don’t want any gutbucket around here.
2. n. a toilet.
Where’s the gutbucket around here?
The kid tried to flush his tash down the gutbucket.
3. n. the stomach.
Hey, your gutbucket’s getting sort of big, isn’t it?
Sam poked Pete right in the gutbucket.
4. n. a fat person, usually a man.
Harry is getting to be a real gutbucket.
Look at the gutbucket waddling down the street.
5. n. a cheap saloon; a low tavern.
Old Jed is probably stuck in some gutbucket someplace, talking his head off.
The pinstriper needed a drink so bad he stopped at one of those gutbuck-ets on Maple Street.
6. n. an earthy style of music.
I’d like to hear some good old-fashioned gutbucket.
You don’t hear much gutbucket in public places these days.

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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  • gutbucket — /gut buk it/, n. jazz played in the raucous and high spirited style of barrelhouse. [1925 30; GUT + BUCKET] * * * …   Universalium

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  • gutbucket — gut•buck•et [[t]ˈgʌtˌbʌk ɪt[/t]] n. mad jazz played in the raucous and high spirited style of barrelhouse • Etymology: 1925–30 …   From formal English to slang

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