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bucket list

noun
/ˈbʌkɪt ˌlɪst/UK/ˈbʌkət ˌlɪst/US

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.

  1. derived from buquet — “balance; trebuchet”

Definitions

  1. A list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later.

    • A "bucket" list is simply a formal procedure for recording items of concern that arise during work on other agenda items.
    • The figures and section drawings contain many of the most important locus numbers. We are not publishing a complete bucket list.
    • As you go through each step during the session, keep a "bucket list" of items that will need followup action

  2. A list of things to accomplish before one's death.

    • I'm a helicopter pilot, not a writer. Still, it's been a dream of mine to someday write a book. It's ranked near the top on my list of things I want to do someday, my "bucket list," if you will.
    • "They told me hiking down into the canyon was on their bucket list." / She nodded. "I hear that all the time. People all over the world have the Grand Canyon on their bucket list." / Jake frowned. "I don't have a bucket list."

  3. A data structure containing buckets used in a hashing algorithm.

    • Using a bucket list structure[…], the program sorts each incoming word serially, constructing a list within each of 256 buckets for good words of a given alphabetic range […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bucket list. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA