Definitions for Luck

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Luck luck

Spelling: [luhk]

IPA: /lʌk/

Luck is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Luck (cklu).

Definitions for Luck

noun

1. the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities:
2. good fortune; advantage or success, considered as the result of chance:
3. a combination of circumstances, events, etc., operating by chance to bring good or ill to a person:
4. some object on which good fortune is supposed to depend:
5. Polish name of Lutsk.

Idioms

1. down on one's luck, in unfortunate circumstances; unlucky:
2. in luck, lucky; fortunate:
3. luck of the draw, the luck one has in or as if in drawing cards.
4. out of luck, unlucky; unfortunate:
5. push one's luck, Informal. to try to make too much of an opportunity; go too far. Also, crowd one's luck.

Verb phrases

1. luck into/onto, to meet, acquire, become, etc., by good luck:
2. luck out, to have an instance or run of exceptionally good luck:
3. luck upon, to come across by chance:

Origin of Luck

1400-50; late Middle English luk Middle Dutch luc, aphetic form of gelucke; cognate with G. Glück

Examples for Luck

And he was both to batter it down, for he still had the gambler's faith in his luck.

It would be a stroke of luck if I could stumble on one of his hiding places!

"We knew the chances and we knew that the statistics and luck were not necessarily in our favor," she said.

How'll they know that it was luck—that my gun stuck in the holster—and that you jumped me on the draw?

Rick suggests a Woodbury-esque sneak attack on the hospital and lays out a meticulous strategy relying heavily on timing and luck.

Such, at least, was my luck when starting for my annual French tour in 1887.

The Danish Air Force, as luck would have it, had just the aircraft.

He knows you're with us, and he knows our luck left us when you come.

The story follows a down on his luck family man named Bill Scanlon (Wes Bentley), who takes to stealing after losing his job.

As luck would have it, right in front of me were lawyers from the same firm representing the plaintiffs.