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; What’s on your summer bucket list?
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Origin of bucket list
First recorded in 2005–10; from the idiom kick the bucket ‘to die’
Words nearby bucket list
bucket, bucket about, bucket brigade, bucket conveyor, bucket ladder, bucket list, bucket out, bucket seat, bucket shop, bucket truck, bucketful
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Example sentences from the Web for bucket list
The blog quickly went viral, making Avery a minor celebrity and earning her nicknames like the “bucket-list baby.”
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British Dictionary definitions for bucket list
bucket list
noun
informal a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
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