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Definition: Potluck |
PotluckNoun1. Whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all: "having arrived unannounced we had to take potluck"; "a potluck supper". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "potluck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. |
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. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Typical dishes served at potluck dinners include spaghetti, hot dish or casserole, and salad. Also, a variety of desserts are usually available.
The word potluck appears to come from the Native American term potlatch.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Potluck."
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Clever | Potluck supper: Sunday at 5:00 P.M... Prayer and medication to follow. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Unlucky Potluck (1972) Potluck Pards (1934) High Times Potluck (2001) | |
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Expressions using "potluck": take potluck ♦ To take potluck. Additional references. | |
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Chinese | 便飯 (a simple meal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | náhodné jídlo (pot luck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ماحضر, غذای مختصر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | seadanya (sober), makan seadanya. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pasto alla buona. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otluckpay еда (chow, eats, fare, fast food, food, grub, knife and fork, meal, meat, prog, repast). (various references) klopa koja se zatekne u frižideru. (various references) probabilidad (likelihood, probability). (various references) husmanskost. (various references) їжа (aliment, bait, board, chow, chuck, eating, fare, feed, feeding, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, nutritive, pabulum, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), шанс (break, chance, hazard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "potluck": potlucks. (additional references) | |
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"Potluck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Optilux, polack, polock, pootlock, Portulaca, pultusk. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-l-o-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lockup. | |
-2 letters: clout, pluck, poult. | |
-3 letters: clop, clot, colt, coup, cult, lock, loup, lout, luck, plot, pock, pout, puck, tolu, tuck. | |
-4 letters: col, cop, cot, cup, cut, kop, lop, lot, opt, out, pol, pot, pul, put, top, tup, upo. | |
-5 letters: lo, op, to, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-l-o-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: potlucks. | |
+2 letters: pocketful. | |
+3 letters: pocketfuls, pocketsful. | |
+4 letters: outpolitick. | |
+5 letters: computerlike, leukopoietic, outpoliticks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 74 6C 75 63 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- - .-.. ..- -.-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110100 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o t l u c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0074 006C 0075 0063 006B |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818678876977 |
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