POTLUCK SUPPER

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noun

food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.

Also called potluck supper, potluck dinner, potluck lunch. a meal, especially for a large group, to which participants bring various foods to be shared.

whatever is available or comes one's way: With fluctuating interest rates, homebuyers are learning to take potluck with the banks.

Origin:
1585–95; pot¹ + 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."

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"I allude to these facts to show that, so far from the Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular. Having recently given particular attention to this subject, I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples; and further, to the opinion that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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