bucket brigade love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A line of people formed to fight a fire by passing buckets of water from a source to the fire.
  • noun A group of people who help out in an urgent situation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

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