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”

Example Sentences

So if Chicago is on your travel bucket list, here are the accommodations, standout restaurants, and activities to add to your itinerary.

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He also got emotional while tracing his Glasgow roots on the show, which finds the 78-year-old actor and comedian ticking off items on his travel bucket list.

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Conquering the UK is definitely on the bucket list.

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Knight is also involved in writing the new James Bond film, which he previously told the BBC had always been on his bucket list.

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The startling beauty of the archipelago has regularly earned it "world's best beach" titles, and thrust it onto the bucket lists of the globe's most affluent travellers.

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