Fluke

Definition: Fluke

Fluke

Noun

1. A stroke of luck.

2. A barb on a harpoon or arrow.

3. Flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor.

4. Either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean.

5. Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fluke" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fluke

Angularity

Elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo.

Flatness

Adjective: flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid; level; (horizontal); flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand.

Intention

Speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke; (uncertainty); fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit.

Crosswords: Fluke

German (fluke).

Bitch, tellin me my style was a fluke (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

Magic Fluke (1949)

A Fluke in the 'Fluence (1915)

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Books

• Fishing for Fluke (reference)

• Fishing for Fluke (The/Fisherman Library) (reference)

• Fluke (reference)

• Fluke 88 Automotive Meter: Student Workbook (reference)

• Fluke Training Video (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Fluke (reference)

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  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Friends of the sailor helping make a glorious day better Dolphin playing in the bow wave of the NOAA Ship PEIRCE Ship anchor fluke in lower left of photo. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The F/V JAIME MAE rigged for fluke at the Co-op Seafood dock. Credit: Fisheries.

Stern view of the F/V AUSTIN and MCGINTY, fluke rigged. Credit: Fisheries.

Some of the gear on deck of a fishing boat rigged for fluke. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The trematode Clonorchis sinensis (Chinese or oriental liver fluke). (references)

Trematodes (flukes) Opisthorchis viverrini (Southeast Asian liver fluke) and O. felineus (cat liver fluke). (references)

During the acute phase (caused by the migration of the immature fluke through the hepatic parenchyma), manifestations include abdominal pain, hepatomegaly, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, urticaria and eosinophilia, and can last for months. (references)

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Expressions using "fluke": anchor fluke ♦ bannock fluke ♦ blood fluke ♦ flat as a fluke ♦ liver fluke ♦ long fluke ♦ pole fluke ♦ sail fluke ♦ sand fluke. Additional references.

Ending with "fluke": anti-fluke, liver-fluke.

Albanian

stropio në bilardo, pikë për shans, peshk-plloçë, kundërmajë (barb), këlbazë e dhenve, gremç i spirancës, gjysmëbisht balene. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكتب خدمة, ‏مخلب المرساة, ‏حظ عفوي, ‏حظ (cast, chance, fortune, luck, show), ‏عذبة السمكة, ‏السمك المفلطح, ‏أحد فصي ذنب الحوت, ‏شوكة الحربون. (various references)

Bulgarian 

случайно правя щастлив удар, случайно печеля, щастлива случайност (hap), шанс (break, chance, expectation, hazard, look in, odds, show), камбала (flounder), вид бъбрековиден картоф, метил (methyl, rot, trematode), лапа (application, flapper, flipper, fomentation, pad, paw, poultice, pud, stupe), писия (dab, flounder, plaice). (various references)

Chinese 

蛭 (hirudinea, leech), �"目鱼 (flounder). (various references)

Danish

skrubbe (European flounder, flounder), ankerflig (anchor fluke, anchor palm). (various references)

Dutch

vloei (anchor fluke, anchor palm, creep, creep deformation, flow, leveling, plastic deformation, plastic flow), lepel (spoon), ijbot (European flounder, flounder), botje (European flounder, flounder), bot (abrupt, addled, blunt, bone, crude, foolish, raw, rough, stupid, unrefined, unwrought), ankervloei (anchor fluke, anchor palm), ankerhand (anchor fluke, anchor palm), ankerblad (anchor fluke, anchor palm). (various references)

Finnish

kampela (flat-fish, flounder), ankkurinkoura (anchor fluke, anchor palm). (various references)

French

flondre (flounder, mud flounder, white fluke), flet d'Europe (flounder, mud flounder, white fluke), flet commun (European flounder, flounder), flet (European flounder, flounder, mud flounder, white fluke), poisson, patte d'ancre, patte, oreille (anchor fluke), lobe de la nageoire, coup de chance, chance, bureau de service, barbillon. (various references)

German

flunder (flounder). (various references)

Greek 

καλκάνι (dab, turbot), όνυχας άγκυρας (anchor fluke, anchor palm), πτερύγιο άγκυρας (anchor fluke, anchor palm), είδοσ τσιπούρασ (butterfish, scup), άγκιστρο άγκυρασ, απροσδόκητη επιτυχία, απροσδόκητη τύχη, δόντι άγκυρας (anchor fluke, anchor palm). (various references)

Hebrew 

יתרון מקרי. (various references)

Hungarian

szerencse (chance, felicity, fortune, happiness, hit, it's a good job that, luck, mercy, piece of luck, scoop, stroke of good luck), lepényhal (butt, dab, flatfish, flounder, plaice), métely (blight, poison), mázli (bit of fat, bit of luck, piece of luck), horogkarom, horgonyhegy, farkuszony (caudal fin). (various references)

Indonesian

candit. (various references)

Italian

patta (flap), passera pianuzza (European flounder, flounder), passera (European flounder, European plaice, flounder, plaice, witch, witch flounder), orecchio dell'� ncora (anchor fluke, anchor palm), marra (anchor fluke, anchor palm, grubber, mattock), colpo di fortuna (lucky chance), caso fortuito (fortuitous case, fortuitous event). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

紛れ�"たり (lucky shot), 紛れ (chance, confusion), フロギストン説 (airy, booing, booster, booth, bouquet, bouquet garni, CFC, cheese, chlorofluorohydrocarbon, FEP, floppy, floppy disk, Florida, florigen, florist, fluon gas, fluorocarbon, Freon, frock, frock coat, frog, frogman, front, front office, front page, front wheel drive, front-end, front-end processor, frontier, frontier spirit, frost, light, phlogiston theory, windscreen, windshield). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フロック (frock), まぐれあたり (lucky shot), まぐれ (chance). (various references)

Manx

taghyrt (accident, chance, contingency, contingent, event, eventuate, experience, happen, happening, incident, occur, occurrence), pooghane, liehbage (flatfish, sole, sole see {liebage}), liebage (flatfish, sole, sole see {liehbage}). (various references)

Pig Latin

ukeflay.(various references)

Portuguese

sorte (chance, destiny, die, dole, draw, fate, fortune, hap, haphazard, happiness, hazard, hit, lot, lottery, luck, prise, prize, sort, speed, star, swat), solha das pedras (European flounder, flounder), pata de âncora (anchor fluke, anchor palm), orelha de âncora. (anchor fluke, anchor palm), linguado (butt, halibut, sole), lance de sorte, casualidade (accidence, chance, hap, hazard, incidental), acaso feliz. (various references)

Romanian

zimţ de harpon, vârf de ancorã (bill), peşte plat, obţine ceva prin noroc, noroc (a bit luck, a piece of luck, blessing, chance, cheerio, fortune, god speed, good luck, hap, happiness, hazard, hello, hi, lot, luck, luckiness, more power to you, piece of luck, prosperity, score, star, strike, success, your health), gãlbeazã, avea noroc (be in luck, have good fortune), avea baftã (be in luck). (various references)

Russian 

счастливая случайность, камбала;игра случая, камбала (flatfish, flounder, flue, plaice), лапа (claw, pad, palm, paw). (various references)

Scottish

spliùc (fluke of an anchor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

metilj (liver fluke), iverak (butt, flounder, halibut, turbot). (various references)

Spanish

chiripa (flash in the pan, scratch). (various references)

Swedish

flax (luck), ankarfly. (various references)

Thai

เงี่ยงของฉมวก, หอก, ลูกศร, พยาธิตัวแบน, การโชค�"ีโ�"ยบังเอิญ, ปลาประเ� ทตัวแบน. (various references)

Turkish

zıpkın ucu, yassı balık (flatfish), sondaj kepçesi, sürpriz (bombshell, bonus, snap, surprise), ok damağı, dil balığı, beklenmedik başarı (strike), balina kuyruğu, şans eseri (haphazard, incidentally, perchance), şans (auspiciousness, chance, flukey, fluky, fortune, good luck, hap, hazard, hit, inning, innings, luck, odds, opportunity, shot, show, star, turnup). (various references)

Ukrainian

камбала (brill, plaice). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự may mắn (blessing, bonanza, godspeed, luckiness), sán lá. (various references)

Flesus flesus, Platichthys flesus, Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus,1758), Pleuronectes flesus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fluke": fluked, flukes, flukey. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fluke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fauske, Feleke, feluce, flako, flice, fluc, fluck, fluge, flugel, flure, fluxe, fruke, fuckee, fuk, Fukaba, Fukao, fuke, fukkit, Fukue, Fulco, Fylke, Ifaluk, luke, pluke, rlykke. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: flue, fuel, leku.

-2 letters: elf, elk, feu, flu, kef, kue, lek, leu, uke.

-3 letters: ef, el.

+1 letter: fluked, flukes, flukey.

+2 letters: flukier, flunked, flunker, flunkey, wakeful.

+3 letters: cheekful, faunlike, flukiest, flunkers, flunkeys, flunkies, fumelike, gulflike, lutefisk, rufflike, surflike, turflike, wreckful.

+4 letters: basketful, bucketful, cheekfuls, flutelike, kerfuffle, lutefisks, pocketful, wakefully.

+5 letters: basketfuls, basketsful, bucketfuls, bucketsful, kerfuffles, outflanked, pocketfuls, pocketsful, superflack.