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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”
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bucket list

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