Meanings
Sense 1 is from kick the bucket (“to die”) + list, hence a “list of things to do before you die”. The term was used in 1999 by American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in his screenplay for the 2007 film The Bucket List.[1][2] 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 said to be earliest known uses with the current meaning.[3]
How to pronounce "bucket list":
A list of things to accomplish before one's death. A list of things to accomplish before any certain deadline or in a certain time period.
Example: "winter bucket list"
A list of things to accomplish before any certain deadline or in a certain time period.
Example: "winter bucket list"
A data structure containing buckets used in a hashing algorithm.
A list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later.
