bucket and spade

English

Alternative forms
  • bucket-and-spade (especially attributive)
  • pail and shovel (North America)

Noun
a bucket and spade

bucket and spade (plural buckets and spades)

  1. A child's toy, consisting of a (usually plastic) bucket and spade, used for building simple sandcastles at the beach.
    • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 54:
      And as a marker of the Edwardians, both embody the pleasure principle and have (in my view) a certain bucket-n-spade frivolity to them.
  2. (attributive) Denoting traditional seaside leisure activities.
    People aren't going on bucket-and-spade holidays any more.
    the bucket and spade brigade

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