1. A stroke of luck
   - good luck, good fortune 
2. A barb on a harpoon or arrow 
3. Flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
   - flue 
4. Either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean 
5. Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
   - trematode, trematode worm

1. Achieve by good luck

Derived forms: fluked, flukes, fluking

See also: fluky

Type of: barb, flatworm, fortune, luck, platyhelminth, projection, tail

Part of: anchor, blower, cetacean, cetacean mammal, class Trematoda, ground tackle, harpoon, Trematoda

Encyclopedia: Fluke Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings Fluke, or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

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