bucket list

American  

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?

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bucket list British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of bucket list

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

Example Sentences

It was a bucket list item that I thought I would never achieve.

From The Wall Street Journal

My mother-in-law, 81, is guilting us into paying for her ‘bucket list’ trip to Italy.

From MarketWatch

Here’s the situation: My 81-year-old mother-in-law has Italy on her bucket list.

From MarketWatch

Me Out of Here! had been on his bucket list.

From BBC

Karen and I took several wonderful trips in the four years before her diagnosis, but there were a number of dream journeys still on our bucket list.

From The Wall Street Journal