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a good outcome resulting from luck more than skill
If you are really lucky or flukey, you are also very jammy. It would be quite acceptable to call your friend a jammy b****rd if they won the lottery.
Fluke is slang for a lucky success.
Lucky, jammy, flukey. Usually associated with 'get' as in "That spawney get is so jammy he'd lose 10p and find a fiver!"
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
- If something great happened to you by chance that would be a fluke. When I was a kid my Mum lost her engagement ring on the beach and only realised half way home. We went back to the spot and she found it in the sand. That was a fluke.
- If you are really lucky or flukey, you are also very jammy. It would be quite acceptable to call your friend a jammy b****rd if they won the lottery.
Iron duke is London Cockney rhyming slang for fluke.
If something great happened to you by chance that would be a fluke. When I was a kid my Mum lost her engagement ring on the beach and only realised half way home. We went back to the spot and she found it in the sand. That was a fluke.
The wedge-shaped part of an anchor's arms that digs into the bottom.
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The marysole, or sail fluke.
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Formed like, or having, a fluke.
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An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
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Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
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The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
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A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
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An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:
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The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
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A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
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The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
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An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.
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An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.
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A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.
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A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
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A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
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Same as 1st Fluke, 2.
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The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
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A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff.
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One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.
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