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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 potluck supper,. 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.
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see take potluck .Example Sentences
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.
The dishes at a community center potluck for Indian expatriates near Washington, D.C., ranged from chana masala, a popular northern Indian chickpea curry, to idli, a southern Indian rice cake.
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