bucket list
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈbʌkɪt lɪst/
- It's one of those unique places that should be on every skier's bucket list.
- bucket list item
- bucket list trip
- bucket list destination
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Watch on YouTubeBut I also wrote a bucket list for myself.
- But I also wrote a bucket list for myself.
- Yeah, yeah, that is why is that a bucket list thing for people?
- Somebody asked me earlier about my bucket list and how that helps me.
- And what I realize is, OK, my bucket list should be my fear list.
- It's just like, truly, truly a bucket list item.
- And there was only ever one person that was on my bucket list, and that was Irving, Irving Walsh.
- What's next on the work bucket list?
- Yeah, yeah, What else is on that bucket list?
- But what's left on the Artie Lange comedy bucket list?
Examples
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He decided to sky dive this summer because it was on his bucket list for years.
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One of the things on my bucket list has been a trip to the Canadian Rockies.
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But I also wrote a bucket list for myself.
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I think most people die with a bucket list full of ideas.
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Somebody asked me earlier about my bucket list and how that helps me.
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Well, I can cross that off the bucket list.
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I guess I should make a bucket list about now.
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Yeah, you can knock that off your bucket list.
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I would love to be a runner; it's on my bucket list!
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We want to know what's on your bucket list (and all the details that go with it!).
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Synonyms
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1.9
A list of things or experiences someone wants
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2.8
A list of things someone wants to have or do
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Surface Forms
Morphology
bucket + list
The sense 'things to do before one dies' is not compositionally derivable from 'bucket' (a container) + 'list'; the noun 'bucket' here alludes to the idiom 'kick the bucket' (to die), so the phrase is idiomatic. A B1 learner who knows the literal constituents would be unlikely to infer this life-before-death meaning without prior exposure, making it opaque.
Etymology
Bucket list comes from the phrase kick the bucket. One popular story says kick the bucket meant 'to die', so a bucket list is a list of things you want to do before that happens.