Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial To die.
- v. idiomatic, colloquial Of a machine, to break down such that it cannot be repaired.
WordNet 3.0
- v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kick the bucket’.
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Bucket List
bucket, kick the bucket, drop in the bucket, Hyacinth Bucket, there's a hole in..., gut bucket, bucket seats, fuzzbucket, coal bucket, slop bucket, bucket wheel exca..., bucket brigade and 31 more...
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Kicks
kick, kicks, I get a kick out ..., kick off, kickstand, kick around, kick back, kick in, kick up, kick the bucket, kick the habit, kick plate and 41 more...
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Idioms
fit to kill, dolled up, put the kibosh on, mad as a hatter, kick the bucket, blood on your hands, back in the day, in the gutter, bite your tongue, dead ringer, ax to grind, have a word with and 29 more...
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Exit Strategy
Euphemisms for the curiously common human pastime of dying.
pass on, depart, decease, buy it, join the choir in..., shuffle off this ..., expire, snuff it, croak, dance, meet your maker, pop off and 66 more...
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Euphemisms
Words to make something seem more genteel or to hide what it really means -- like the words families generate, for example (sometimes not even in the dictionary) for sexual parts of the body.
little man, tencheon (in our ..., mons veneris, little girls' room, poop, number one, number two, willy, snuff it, kick the bucket, pass on, pass over and 1 more...
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Misterpolly's Words
soundbite, quondam, irredentist, new york second, tanorexia, chindia, globesity, man flu, password fatigue, sublunary, sleeping policeman, fibonacci sequence and 7 more...
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bilby I'm waiting for the Nintendo version.
Nov 21, 2007
yarb To die.
Also a children's game played when I was young. Kick the Bucket was a large-scale game which took a lot of organising and therefore almost never happened. I can't remember the exact rules, but it involved one kid kicking a light metal bucket with as much force as possible off the top of a very steep, wooded hill, and ten or twenty others then charging pell-mell down through the trees. Nov 21, 2007