potluck
food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.
Also called potluck supper, potluck dinner, potluck lunch . a meal, especially for a large group, to which participants bring various foods to be shared.
whatever is available or comes one's way: With fluctuating interest rates, homebuyers are learning to take potluck with the banks.
Origin of potluck
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British Dictionary definitions for pot luck
whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
(as modifier): a pot-luck dinner
whatever is available (esp in the phrase take pot luck)
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Other Idioms and Phrases with potluck
see take potluck.
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