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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For the holidays the neighborhood holds an annual pot luck, she said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2020
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
There is training video for the team, and game video for the Thursday parents’ pot luck.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2014
Photos of skipper Stephen Gerrard posing moodily with the newly-unveiled official tournament ball look incongruous against the headline describing manager England's chances as "pot luck", or the version: "England's hopes may go to pot."
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2013
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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