EtymologyEdit
From kick the bucket [to die] + list, hence a list of things to do before you die. The term was coined by American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in his screenplay for the 2007 film The Bucket List.[1] Zackham had created his own list called Justins List of Things to Do Before I Kick the Bucket which he then shortened to Justins 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 the earliest known uses.[2]
PronunciationEdit
bucket list [plural bucket lists]