Meaning & use
kick the bucket
To die, used as an informal and often humorous idiom.
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Grandpa jokes that he plans to travel the world before he kicks the bucket.
The old car finally kicked the bucket after two hundred thousand miles.
A note on using this word
This idiom is very informal and can sound flippant, so it is best avoided when discussing someone's actual death.
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