bit-bucket

bit-bucket (plural bit-buckets)

1. Alternative form of bit bucket
   • 1990 February 17, W. Paul Blase, “No harmless hacker he”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 November 2017:

     Fortunately, "RTM" [Robert Tappan Morris] was not out to deliberately cause damage. What would have happened if he had been? Millions of dollars in time and research data gone into the bit-bucket?