kick the bucket

Questions about kick the bucket

What does kick the bucket mean?

kick the bucket means "pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life".

What is another word for kick the bucket?

Close synonyms include die, decease, perish, go, exit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kick the bucket a common word?

kick the bucket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.