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potluck
[ pot-luhk, -luhk ]
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,. 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.
Idioms and Phrases
see take potluck .Example Sentences
It showed up at church potlucks under domed foil lids, in school lunch trays beside pools of canned peaches, and on our weeknight table with unfussy regularity.
It involves indulging in dim sum and gelato, shopping for — what else? — food and hosting a casual potluck pizza party at home with friends.
At a hospital the day after the crash, Linton said that she did not remember how the crash occurred but that she had left a work potluck and was upset at her coworkers, Lee testified.
The neighbors gather for pumpkin carving each Halloween, pancake breakfasts, Fourth of July potlucks and neighborhood cleanups.
Think potluck, but for drinks: challenge your friends to come up with inventive mocktails for everyone to enjoy.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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