plural of garbage pail

(dated) A container used for urinating or defecating when it is not possible or convenient to use a bathroom or toilet; a bedpan, a chamber pot. Commonly used in hospitals, where it is normally called bedpan. Formerly used in private residences that were without an indoor toilet or bathroom.

(US) A lunchbox (food container) shaped more or less like a bucket with a handle.

(US) A bucket-like receptacle for a baby's used diapers, where they are kept (sometimes in a solution of water and cleaners) until they can be properly washed.

A bucket filled with ice, used to cool bottles of wine.

(Canada, US) Synonym of garbage can (“waste receptacle”)

plural of lunch pail Democrat

(US, politics) Synonym of lunchbox Democrat

(informal, idiomatic) To die.

plural of pailful