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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How to use potluck in a sentence
If you sit next to her at a pot luck dinner, would you enjoy hanging out with her?
A Q and A With Nicolle Wallace, Palin's Chaperone | Ana Marie Cox | October 28, 2008 | THE DAILY BEASTThats trueI said I would take pot luck and teach the scouts many camping tricks to boot!
Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp | Lillian Elizabeth RoyMany's the time I've hadshort rations, and I can take pot-luck with any man.
The Book of the Bush | George DunderdaleThen take pot luck with us and pay me by escorting my business conscience home.
The Readjustment | Will IrwinThere were many officers among them who took pot luck with the men, for there was no special accommodation.
With an Ambulance During the Franco-German War | Charles Edward Ryan
We keep the phrase pot luck; but, for most of those who use it, it has parted with all its meaning.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine | William Carew Hazlitt
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)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with potluck
see take potluck.
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