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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, especially 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.
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potluck
1592, from pot (1) + luck, with notion of "one's luck or chance as to what may be in the pot."
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Potluck dinner
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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