Usually means: Human chain passing items along.
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  1. bucket brigade: Merriam-Webster
  2. bucket brigade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bucket brigade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bucket brigade: Wiktionary
  5. bucket brigade: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. bucket brigade: Dictionary.com
  7. Bucket brigade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. bucket brigade: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bucket brigade: Netlingo

Definitions from Wiktionary (bucket brigade)

noun:  The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who 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.
noun:  (electronics) A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.

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