Definitions for bucket brigade

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buck′et brigade`(n.)

  1. a line of persons formed to extinguish a fire by passing along buckets of water.

Origin of bucket brigade:

1910–15

Wiktionary

  1. bucket brigade(Noun)

    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.

  2. bucket brigade(Noun)

    By extension, any process in which something is passed along a chain.


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