English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

From kick the bucket (“to die”) + list, hence a “list of things to do before you die”. The term was coined by American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in his screenplay for the 2007 film The Bucket List.[1] Zackham had created his own list called “Justin’s List of Things to Do Before I Kick the Bucket” which he then shortened to “Justin’s Bucket List”. The first item on his list was to have a screenplay produced at a major Hollywood studio. After a time, it occurred to him that the notion of a “bucket list” could itself be fodder for a film, so he wrote a screenplay about two dying men racing to complete their own bucket lists with the time they had left. Articles about the movie are the earliest known uses.[2]

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Audio (AU)

Hyphenation: buck‧et list

Noun [ edit ]

bucket list (plural bucket lists)

( idiomatic ) A list of things to accomplish before one's death. 2009 August 10, Robert Deeter, Bullseye: Journal of a Black Hawk Pilot , Bloomington, Ind.: →ISBN , page 102: August 10, Robert Deeter,, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse I'm a helicopter pilot, not a writer. Still, it's been a dream of mine to someday write a book. It's ranked near the top on my list of things I want to do someday, my " bucket list ," if you will.

2010 , Annalisa Daughety, Love is Grand , Uhrichsville, Oh.: Barbour Pub., →ISBN : , Annalisa Daughety,, Uhrichsville, Oh.: Barbour Pub., "They told me hiking down into the canyon was on their bucket list ." / She nodded. "I hear that all the time. People all over the world have the Grand Canyon on their bucket list ." / Jake frowned. "I don't have a bucket list ."

2014, Lara Krupika, “ Bucket List Living for Moms: Becoming a More Adventurous Parent , Naperville, Ill.: Wordcrafter Communications, →ISBN : , Lara Krupika, “ How to Use this Book ”, in, Naperville, Ill.: Wordcrafter Communications, The beauty of bucket lists is that just as they represent us and our dreams, like us they also grow and change. You will be surprised once you have begun the bucket list journey at how opportunities spring up around you. New ideas beg to be added to your list. Even the act of completing a bucket list goal can be the source of further exploration.

Translations [ edit ]

a list of things to accomplish before one's death Catalan: please add this translation if you can

Chinese: Cantonese: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 平生夢想單 平生梦想单 ( píngshēng mèngxiǎng dān ) , 平生願望單 平生愿望单 ( píngshēng yuànwàng dān )

Danish: please add this translation if you can

Dutch: bucketlist m , loodjeslijst f

, Finnish: veivilista

French: liste de choses à faire avant de mourir f

German: Löffelliste f , langfristige Wunschliste f Greek: please add this translation if you can

Hungarian: bakancslista (hu)

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Serbo-Croatian: lista posljednjih želja f

Spanish: lista de cosas por hacer antes de morir f

Swedish: bucketlist c

Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can