bucket list
Speech parts
1. bucket list - Noun
2. bucket list - Phrase
Meaning
(computer science) A data structure containing buckets used in a hashing algorithm. [c. 1965]
A list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later. [c. 1978]
(idiomatic) A list of things to accomplish before one's death. [c. 2006]
Coordinate term: wish list
(by extension) A list of things to accomplish before any certain deadline or in a certain time period.
winter bucket list
Related terms
Examples
I don't keep a Bucket List. I'm open to anything.
Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.
I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.'
My way of discovering of what I like was to create a restaurant list and eat my way through it, and I call it my 'inner fat girl bucket list.'