brain bucket

Definitions

1. 1

   A protective helmet, as worn, for example, by a motorcyclist, bicyclist, or soldier in…

   A protective helmet, as worn, for example, by a motorcyclist, bicyclist, or soldier in combat.

   • The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet) . . . .
   • Roy Knickman of 7-Eleven said he fears more crashes today and will not keep his helmet far from sight. "I always wear my brain bucket," he said.
   • Riding a 500-pound motorcycle in the middle of 3-ton Ford Expeditions and 40-ton trucks is dangerous, with or without a brain bucket or a leather jacket.
2. 2

   The skull

   The skull; the head.

   • [H]e fetched me such a clip on top of my brain-bucket as to drive all my senses clear down into my boots.
   • "[B]ut come, Ed, haven't you got your brain-bucket mended yet, so that you can tell us a story?"

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