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honey bucket

Regional

Meaning
Alaska: a five-gallon pail used as a toilet.
Type
Regionalism
Used in
Alaska

What does “honey bucket” mean

A bucket toilet used in bush villages and cabins without plumbing, then dumped at a community site. The term is documented in Russell Tabbert's Dictionary of Alaskan English and is a normal household word in much of rural Alaska.

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