bucket list

noun

Informal.

a list of things a person wants to achieve or experience, as before reaching a certain age or dying.
a bucket list for a terminally ill patient;
��’s on your summer bucket list?

bucket list

noun

informal��a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bucket list¹

First recorded in 2005–10; from the idiom kick the bucket “to die”

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Example Sentences

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This is the 40th anniversary of Farm Aid, so it was the perfect time to just for us to be together, and it’s a bucket list thing to sing with Willie Nelson.

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One thing he'd still like to tick off his bucket list is visiting the remote island of Tuvalu in the South Pacific Ocean, which sounds like a pitch for a new TV show in itself.

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“But I don’t know if it’s something that’s on my bucket list to go back and do.”

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A more complete reimagining of the space remained on the club’s bucket list.

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As her childhood friend Emmanuel Carter remembers: “That was always on her bucket list.”

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