bucket lists

Noun

bucket list (plural bucket lists)

1. (idiomatic) 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, James D. Anderson, Ezra Earl Jones, “The Primary Task of Ministry”, in The Management of Ministry, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 151
2. (idiomatic) A list of things to accomplish before one's death.
   • Q: What projects are you working on now and in the near future? [Rob Reiner] I'm hoping by the end of October to be shooting a film I've been working on called "The Bucket List," starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. […] They find out they are terminal. They know they don't have much longer...2006 September 2, Peterson Gonzaga, “Reiner gets animated in ‘Everybody’s Hero’”, in Herald News, West Paterson, N.J.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D4, columns 3–4
   1. (broadly, idiomatic) A list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period.
      • a winter bucket list
3. (idiomatic) 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 July 25, J. C. Olney, Feat, an Inventory Program for Information Retrieval (FN-4018), Santa Monica, Calif.: System Development Corporation; quoted in Mary Elizabeth Stevens, “Operational...