flukey
Americanadjective
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Mind you, this wasn’t one of those flukey upset wins that comes by virtue of a trick play or a bad call by the refs.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2021
Backstrom shot toward the crease from behind the left pipe, and a few flukey bounces — off David Savard’s skate, then off Sergei Bobrosvky’s stick — sent it over Bobrovsky’s shoulder and in.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2018
After the Canadians cut the lead to one on a flukey goal with 3:26 to play, Marie-Philip Poulin netted both the tying goal in regulation, and the winner in overtime.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 8, 2018
"The wind is so flukey out there," said the Australian, who should at least end his run of five missed cuts on Friday.
From Reuters ● Nov. 26, 2015
He was a rookey, so flukey, He was a jim dandy you all will agree, He said without fear, "Before I'm a year In the Army, great changes you'll see."
From Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by Various
But Dallas had a fourth straight game without creating a turnover, making the seven in just two games before that look flukier by the week.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2019
John Daly’s flukier injury: John Daly hawking merch in a Hooters parking lot down the road from Augusta National’s gates has become its own Masters tradition.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 10, 2018
The deeper we get into this season the more I am convinced the Canadiens making the Cup Final last year was the flukiest thing to ever happen in hockey.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
As with so many start-up stories, the flukiest stroke of luck decided the company’s fate.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2018
And he breaks back, though in the flukiest of circumstances, hitting one off the frame of his racket, the ball flying hysterically off to the right but somehow dropping on the right-hand line.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2016
O’Connor allowed the flukiest of goals in the Providence game, a goal that energized the Friars, turned around the championship and prompted his gut-wrenching postgame apology.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2015
The impetus and direction of Rose's career derived from two incidents that might just as well not have happened—two of the flukiest of small chances.
From The Real Adventure by Raymond Moreau Crosby
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