1. bit bucket - Noun
2. bit bucket - Verb
(historical) A container for holding chad (“small punched-out pieces of paper”) from paper tape or punch cards used with teleprinters, early computers, and other machines; a chad box.
(by extension, humorous, slang) The supposed place where bits (binary digits) go when they fall off the end of a register during a shift operation; the notional resting place of lost or missing digital information.
Synonyms: black hole, byte bucket, memory hole
bit bucket (third-person singular simple present bit buckets, present participle bit bucketing, simple past and past participle bit bucketed)
(transitive, computing, humorous, slang) To delete.
bit-bucket (plural bit-buckets)
Alternative form of bit bucket
bit-bucket