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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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bucket list1

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

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Example Sentences

Her solution: a bucket list of influential people and places to visit and photograph.

It was on a hike to the Grand Canyon at age 18 that Shattuck penned her first bucket list.

On the verge of turning 60 this December, Lennox still has a few items to cross off her bucket list.

Men and women “go on bucket list,” some commit suicide, and others go full on doomsday hoarder.

As part of ProjectOneLife's ongoing video bucket list venture, it was time to get a little jiggy wit it.

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