Synonyms for kick bucket
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : buhk-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌk ɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for kick bucket Other synonyms for the word kick bucket
- be destroyed
- be killed
- be lost
- be no more
- be taken
- bite the dust
- break down
- breathe one's last
- buy it
- buy the farm
- buy the ranch
- cash in chips
- cash in one's chips
- cease living
- cease to exist
- check out
- collapse
- conk
- corrupt
- croak
- decease
- decompose
- demise
- depart
- die suddenly
- die unexpectedly
- drop
- drop off
- elapse
- end
- fall
- fall dead
- farm
- finish
- give up the ghost
- go
- go belly up
- go to glory
- go to one's reward
- go to the wall
- go under
- go way of all flesh
- go west
- kick off
- kick the bucket
- lose life
- meet one's maker
- OD
- pass
- pass away
- pass on
- pass over
- perish
- pop off
- push up daisies
- quit
- relinquish life
- rest in peace
- rot
- run out
- shove off
- stop
- strike out
- succumb
- suffocate
- terminate
- up and die
- vanish
- waste
- wither
Définition of kick bucket
Origin :- mid-13c., from Anglo-French buquet "bucket, pail," from Old French buquet "bucket," which is from a Germanic source, or a diminutive of cognate Old English buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," originally "belly" (buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), both from West Germanic *buh- (cf. Dutch buik, Old High German buh, German Bauch "belly"), from PIE *bhou-, variant of root *bheu- "to grow, swell" (see be).
- Kick the bucket "to die" (1785) perhaps is from unrelated Old French buquet "balance," a beam from which slaughtered animals were hung; perhaps reinforced by the notion of suicide by hanging after standing on an upturned bucket (but Farmer calls attention to bucket "a Norfolk term for a pulley").
- As in pass away : verb die
- As in perish : verb die, decline, decay
- As in bite the dust : verb pass away
- As in buy the farm : verb pass away
- As in drop dead : verb die
- As in kick the bucket : verb die
- As in : verb die
- As in die : verb pass away; stop living
- As in expire : verb come to an end
Antonyms for kick bucket
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