baldes, baldes de água
1. Plural of bucket; containers with handles used for carrying or storing liquids or other materials
We filled the buckets with water from the well.
Enchemos os baldes com água do poço.
2. Large quantities of something (informal usage)
It's raining buckets outside.
Está chovendo muito lá fora.
3. In computing, containers or divisions in a hash table or data structure
The data is distributed across multiple buckets in the database.
Os dados são distribuídos em múltiplos compartimentos no banco de dados.
4. Basketball hoop or scoring points (slang)
He scored three buckets in the first quarter.
Ele marcou três cestas no primeiro quarto.
In Brazilian Portuguese, 'balde' is the standard term for bucket and is commonly used in household contexts. In sports contexts, particularly basketball, 'buckets' is used in English even when speaking Portuguese in Brazil. The phrase 'chovendo baldes' or 'chovendo muito' expresses heavy rainfall, similar to the English 'raining buckets.'
NYC Slang
buckets (basketball context) - refers to points scored; also 'buckets' meaning heavy rain or large amounts
Related Idioms & Phrases
raining buckets - chovendo muito/a chuva está torrencial
kick the bucket - bater as botas/falecer
drop buckets - marcar muitos pontos (gíria de basquete)
Look up more words on Fala2Me
The free English-Portuguese dictionary with real Brazilian accents, NYC slang, conjugator and more
Open Fala2Me →