bucket list

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkɪt ˌlɪst/
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• General-American: /ˈbʌkət ˌlɪst/
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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.

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: llista de tasques — list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later
• Catalan: llista de coses a fer — list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later
• Finnish: tehtävälista — list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later
• Catalan: llista de coses a fer abans de morir — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Chinese Mandarin: 平生夢想單 /平生梦想单 (píngshēng mèngxiǎng dān) — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Chinese Mandarin: 平生願望單 /平生愿望单 (píngshēng yuànwàng dān) — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Chinese Mandarin: 人生願望清單 /人生愿望清单 (rénshēng yuànwàng qīngdān) — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Dutch: bucketlist — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Dutch: loodjeslijst — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Finnish: veivilista — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• French: liste de choses à faire avant de mourir — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• German: Löffelliste — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• German: langfristige Wunschliste — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Greek: λίστα επιθυμιών (lísta epithymión) — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Hungarian: bakancslista — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Icelandic: klakkslisti — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Italian: lista dei desideri — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Japanese: 死ぬまでしたい事 (shinu made shitai koto) — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Polish: lista rzeczy do zrobienia przed śmiercią — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Portuguese: lista de desejos — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Russian: список того, что нужно сделать за жизнь (spisok tovo, što nužno sdelatʹ za žiznʹ) — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Serbo-Croatian: ли̏ста по̀сљедњӣх же̏ља — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Serbo-Croatian: lȉsta pòsljednjīh žȅlja — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Spanish: lista de cosas por / para hacer antes de morir — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Swedish: bucketlist — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Turkish: yapılacaklar listesi — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Ukrainian: список справ перед смертю (spysok sprav pered smertju) — a list of things to accomplish before one’s death
• Catalan: llista de tasques — list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period
• Catalan: llista de coses a fer — list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period
• Finnish: tehtävien asioiden lista — list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period
• Finnish: lista lokeroita — data structure containing buckets used in a hashing algorithm