ALL meanings of bucket brigade
buck·et bri·gade
B b - noun bucket brigade a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire 3
- noun bucket brigade a line of persons formed to extinguish a fire by passing on buckets of water quickly from a distant source. 1
- noun bucket brigade any group of persons who cooperate to help cope with an emergency. 1
- noun bucket brigade A primitive firefighting technique, in which a long line of people pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it. 0
- noun bucket brigade By extension, any process in which something is passed along a chain. 0