pot luck
Britishnoun
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whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
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( as modifier )
a pot-luck dinner
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whatever is available (esp in the phrase take pot luck )
Example Sentences
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"You can post the same kind of content all the time and one video will do really well, and another won't. It's kind of pot luck."
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
As a family-friendly venue that might have a pot luck one weekend and a theater production the next, the nonprofit is not a place most visitors would think of as risky.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2019
And why don't the well meaning folk who conduct a weekly pot luck picnic under the highway instead assist people to get the help they could use, i.e , rehab?
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
It will include a haftarah honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. A pot luck lunch will follow.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2016
Grandpa even asked Mr. McAllister to take pot luck and stay to supper.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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