Usually means: Die, often used humorously, colloquially.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word kick the bucket:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. kick the bucket: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kick the bucket: Merriam-Webster
  3. kick the bucket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kick the bucket: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kick the bucket: Vocabulary.com
  6. kick the bucket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. kick the bucket: Wiktionary
  8. kick the bucket: Dictionary.com
  9. Kick the bucket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. kick the bucket: Rhymezone
  11. Kick the Bucket: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. kick the bucket: FreeDictionary.org
  13. kick the bucket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Bucket, Kick the, Kick the Bucket: The Word Detective
  15. kick the bucket: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Kick the bucket: World Wide Words
  17. Kick the bucket: Phrase Finder

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kick the bucket: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kick the bucket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kick the bucket: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. kick the bucket: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kick the bucket: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. kick the bucket: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Definitions from Wiktionary (kick the bucket)

verb:  (idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die.
verb:  (idiomatic, colloquial, of a machine) To break down such that it cannot be repaired.

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