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An informal idiom meaning to die or pass away.
"The family patriarch finally kicked the bucket peacefully at the ripe age of ninety-eight."
"I hope to travel the entire globe before I kick the bucket."
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Traced to the 16th-century slaughterhouse beam ("bucket", from Old French buquet, a balance beam) from which animals were suspended before dying.
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