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Whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all
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potluck
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Word definitions for potluck in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever is available. 2 whatever is available in a particular situation. 3 A meal consisting of whatever guests have brought, particularly from different parts of the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all; "having arrived unannounced we had to take potluck"; "a potluck supper"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pot-luck , 1590s, from pot (n.1) + luck ; with notion of "one's luck or chance as to what may be in the pot." As an adjective from 1775.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Potluck \Pot"luck`\, n. Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal. A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on. --G. Eliot. To take potluck , to take what food may chance to be provided.
Usage examples of potluck.
After all, everyone here had taken a desperate gamble in shooting a potluck portal to get here.
But it was a fair possibility that a bold or foolish few had braved the trip back and had lived to tell of what was on the other side of the potluck portal on Seven Suns Interchange, though that might be only one of several portals leading into the Outworlds.
We were being sentenced, banished to the far side of a potluck portal with no hope of appeal.
I thought it improbable that Moore would follow us through a potluck portal, but you never know.
I had blundered through not one, but two potluck portals, and now, inside that maze-within-a-maze, I had found yet another labyrinth to contain me.
Still it seems that there should be some other alternative to just blindly shooting potluck after potluck.
We had a ,notion that shooting a potluck would be our best bet at the moment.
The third was potluck, so there were really only two choices, unless we felt very lucky.
I had to nab you, and I wanted to wait until you shot a potluck to be certain you had the map.
Tonight was the normal night for the regular potluck for their grad students.
We had a notion that shooting a potluck would be our best bet at the moment.
Christmas potluck has been a lot of work for you and I called to see if there was anything I could do to help.
Lake Eden potluck cookbook and the head of the cookbook committee, Hannah had the power to accept or reject as she saw fit.
It was time to set out the main dishes and sides for the crowd that was already beginning to say that this was the best Christmas potluck dinner yet.
Hot German Potato Salad with Bratwurst, Country Ham Casserole, Sauerbraten, Baked Fish, and something no Lake Eden potluck dinner could be without, Minnesota Hotdish.