Bucket

Proper noun

1. Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
   • ‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’ - 1999, M. Corrente, P. & R. Farrelly, Outside Providence:
   • People used to call Pawtucket ‘the Bucket’. And it was a derogatory term. But you know what there are some artists who've taken that term ‘the Bucket’ and reinvigorated it and they actually sell shirts, ‘the Bucket’...
   • Rhode Island had a way of trapping its inhabitants like roaches that check in but can never escape. Pawtucket, The Bucket was especially gluey that way. - 2012 October 23, Rey Otis, Dead Batteries, Black Bed Sheet...