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potluck dinner

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pot⋅luck

[pot-luhk, -luhk]
–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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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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