great bit bucket in the sky

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great bit bucket in the sky

noun the great bit bucket in the sky

  1. humorous, slang, uncountable Synonym of bit bucket (“notional resting place of lost or missing digital information”). You cannot interrupt it by pressing Esc or Ctrl-Break, and if you use brute force to stop it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or by turning off the machine, your data will disappear into the great bit-bucket in the sky. Most other disk packers guard against accidental data loss by keeping a spare copy of a

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@misc{great_bit_bucket_in_the_sky_2026,
  title = {great bit bucket in the sky},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/great%20bit%20bucket%20in%20the%20sky},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}