fluke
noun/fluːk/
/fluːk/
[usually singular] (informal)- a lucky or unusual thing that happens by accident, not because of planning or skill
- They are determined to show that their last win was no fluke.
- fluke that… It was a sheer fluke that I happened to pick the winning number.
- a fluke goal
Word Originmid 19th cent. (originally a term in games such as billiards denoting ‘a lucky stroke’): perhaps a dialect word.
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