bucket list UK /ˈbʌkɪt ˌlɪst/US /ˈbʌkət ˌlɪst/ noun4 •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. — 2009 •A list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period. •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. — 1978 •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 […] — 1960 formsbucket lists