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bucket list

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Pluralbucket lists

4 meanings of bucket list

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  1. 1
    life goalsidiomcountable
    A list of things you want to do before you die.

    Riding in a hot-air balloon is on my bucket list.

    My aunt finally crossed Paris off her bucket list.

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  2. 2
    short termidiomcountable
    A list of things you want to do by a certain date or during a certain time.

    We made a summer bucket list with ten fun things to do.

    Visiting the new museum is on my bucket list for this year.

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  3. 3
    in a meetingidiomcountable
    A list of jobs that come up in a meeting and are saved for later.

    Sam wrote his new idea on the bucket list so we could talk about it later.

    The meeting ran long, so we never got to the bucket list.

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  4. 4
    computingidiomcountable
    In computing, a way of storing data in groups called buckets, used in a method called hashing.

    The program keeps every user name in a bucket list with 64 buckets.

    Our teacher drew a bucket list on the board, with one box for each bucket.

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Origin

From bucket and list. The "before you die" meaning comes from kick the bucket, "to die"; the screenwriter Justin Zackham made it up in 1999, and the film The Bucket List (2007) made it popular.