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Potluck

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pot⋅luck

  [pot-luhk, -luhk]
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–noun
1. food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.
2. Also called potluck supper, potluck dinner, potluck lunch. a meal, esp. for a large group, to which participants bring various foods to be shared.
3. whatever is available or comes one's way: With fluctuating interest rates, homebuyers are learning to take potluck with the banks.
Origin:
1585–95; pot 1 + luck
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pot·luck   (pŏt'lŭk')   
n.  

  1. Whatever food happens to be available for a meal, especially when offered to a guest: Having arrived unannounced for supper, we had to take potluck.

  2. A meal at which each guest brings food that is then shared by all. Also called potluck supper.

  3. Whatever is available at a particular time: The scheduled flight was canceled and passengers had to take potluck on the other airlines.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

potluck 
1592, from pot (1) + luck, with notion of "one's luck or chance as to what may be in the pot."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

potluck

see take potluck.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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