pot lucknoun
uk/ˌpɒt ˈlʌk/us/ˌpɑːt ˈlʌk/[ U ] anything that is available or is found by chance, rather than something chosen, planned, or prepared:
We had no idea which hotel would be best, so we just took pot luck with the first one on the list.
Mary's welcome to stay for dinner if she doesn't mind taking pot luck (= having whatever is available).
[ C ] mainly US also potluck an informal meal where guests bring a different dish that is then shared with the other guests:
a pot luck dinner
We're having a pot luck on Saturday.
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Chance and randomness
- accident
- arbitrary
- as luck would have it idiom
- be the luck of the draw idiom
- casual
- circumstance
- fortuitous
- haphazard
- happen
- happenstance
- harum-scarum
- lottery
- luck into sth
- more by accident than design idiom
- more by luck than judgment idiom
- one in a million idiom
- postcode lottery
- serendipity
- stochastic
- stumble into sth
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