bucket list

noun

Informal.

1. 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;

   What’s on your summer bucket list?

bucket list

noun

1. informal,  a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies

Word History and Origins

Origin of bucket list¹

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