WordNet
n. a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner [syn: dinner pail]
Usage examples of "dinner bucket".
Leonidas said, taking his dinner bucket and heading off to eat with other Negroes.
But the woman wouldn't heed him and so, dropping the dinner bucket, he ran after her.
He got out of the Pontiac banging a dinner bucket against his leg.
But by mid-May, the sun, rises out of the morning's haze with authority and potency, and standing on your top step at seven in the morning with your dinner bucket in your hand, you know that the dew will be melted off the grass by eight and that the dust on the back roads will hang depthless and still in the air for five minutes after a car's passage.
The man was squatted down, with an empty dinner bucket beside him, scowling at Custis and the girl.