bucket list

== English == === Etymology === From bucket +‎ list. Sense 1 (“list of tasks arising during a meeting”) may allude to a notional bucket in which tasks to be dealt with later are placed. Sense 2 (“list of things to accomplish before one’s death”) refers to kick the bucket (“to die”), bucket in this sense possibly referring to a beam to which a pig is hung by its heels after it has been slaughtered (possibly from Old French buquet (“balance; trebuchet”)). It was coined by the American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in 1999 when he drew up “Justin’s List of Things to Do before I Kick the Bucket” which he 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 few years, it occurred to him that the notion of a “bucket list” could be the basis 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, which became the film The Bucket List (2007). The term was then popularized by the film. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbʌkɪt ˌlɪst/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʌkət ˌlɪst/ Hyphenation: buck‧et list === Noun === bucket list (plural bucket lists) (idiomatic) A list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later. [from late 20th c.] Coordinate term: to-do list A list of things to accomplish before one's death. [from late 20th c.] Coordinate terms: dream list, wish list (by extension) A list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period. (computer science) A data structure containing buckets used in a hashing algorithm. [from mid 20th c.] ==== Related terms ==== laundry list (“long and often tedious list of items”) shopping list (“list of desired items”) want list (“list of desired items”) ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === bucket list (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Paul McFedries (10 November 2010), “bucket list”, in Word Spy, Logophilia Limited, retrieved 4 June 2017.