bucket list

noun

: a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying

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Yellowstone is on millions of travelers’ summer bucket list, but visiting in the off-season has its benefits. — Shelby Knick, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 Then put these activities on your trip bucket list: biking on the 30 miles of paved trails, playing a round at one of five championship golf courses, savoring the uncrowded beaches, and attending the resort’s weekly oyster roast and barbecue in the summer. — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025 If food is your main motivation for traveling, this is no doubt a bucket list destination worth carving an entire trip around. — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2025 Meeting Middleton had been on the teen’s bucket list, and in October the princess obliged. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bucket list

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Etymology

from the phrase kick the bucket (to die)

First Known Use

2006, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bucket list was in 2006

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“Bucket list.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bucket%20list. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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