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noun fluːkfluk An unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck. their victory was a bit of a fluke Example sentencesExamples - We would say, in fact, that B's failure to castle was a fluke, bad luck with the random number generator.
- As it turns out, they're not that great a side and that win was a bit of a fluke, but I think they've got the potential to make the finals - they just need a coach who isn't a bleached blonde surfer dude flake.
- I left that meeting with the shooters confident my experience was simply a fluke, an accident that was so unlikely it never could happen again.
- As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.
- When we got it last year we felt it was a bit of a fluke but then we turned around and did it two years on the trot.
- There's a huge amount of fluke and chance and accident.
- On the tiny chance it was a fluke, I'm banking on my artistic abilities.
- The confidence is brewing in Southern California, and the Bolts are out to prove last year's surprise was less fluke and more the start of a trend.
- It's the only song I scored as low as Switzerland which, through luck, fluke or divine intervention, received precisely the number of points it deserved: a big fat zero.
- Charlie's condition is a fluke so the chance of any future siblings having it are just one in 50.
- The fluke was a bit insipid, but then again this was a test-run: after this first experience, I'm willing to give anything Todd serves a second go.
- If Helena's experience wasn't a fluke, something similar should have happened in other jurisdictions with smoking bans.
- It was a bit of a fluke but everyone at the club was delighted and so was I.
- ‘My modeling career was a bit of a fluke,’ she says.
- Some of them, by genetic fluke or bad luck, are not here even by choice, unconscious or no.
- Pile said the fire was a fluke occurrence and doesn't indicate a problem with the submarines.
- And you'll never know the joy that fans in the rest of the country will experience when the fluke happens and the Yankees lose this year.
- Contrary to what Bettman might think, a fluke occurrence can not be used as precedent: after all, a fluke occurrence is by definition rare.
- Luck, in the sense of a fluke occurrence, had nothing to do with it.
- For many of us, success and failure turn on lucky breaks and fluke occurrences - starting most importantly with the accident of birth.
Synonyms chance, coincidence, accident, a twist of fate piece/stroke of luck, piece/stroke of good luck, piece/stroke of good fortune, lucky stroke, happy/lucky chance, lucky break
verb fluːk [with object]Achieve (something) by luck rather than skill. Example sentencesExamples - Maybe she had done one of them beforehand or maybe she fluked it.
- West Ham gave it both barrels, as they say in cockney crime caper films, but somehow Liverpool fluked another trophy thanks to Steven Gerrard's heroics.
- Millwall haven't fluked their way into the final and the Reds could have an off day.
- Spurs fans will be getting excited now they've fluked a win and there's not a pensioner in sight in the forwards.
- Happy accidents exist, but they are extremely rare, and they are almost always fluked by people who aren't professional photographers.
- All of my happiness is therefore underpinned by a nagging sense of under-achievement, of doubt, of feeling that all of this has been fluked rather than earned.
- But Coco sets high standards and so has gone head to paw with the Swinburne Uni computer, which has fluked a score of 97 after Round 18.
- I played very loose in contrast to the rest of the night's play and got ahead quite quickly thanks to fluking four of a kind early on.
- In light of how jammy they were across the first 45 minutes yesterday it is a wonder they have never managed even to fluke a Scottish Cup win.
- I can fire random numbers at you until I fluke it if you want, but that's as good as you're going to get.
- Maybe you fluked your way through the trials, hmmm?
- It is not like Leeds fluked this win either, in what was an extremely patchy game.
- For some in his side, Scotland simply fluked a win that condemned their country to only a second defeat in 17 matches.
Origin Mid 19th century (originally a term in games such as billiards denoting a lucky stroke): perhaps a dialect word. Rhymes archduke, chibouk, duke, Farouk, kook, Luke, nuke, peruke, puke, rebuke, Seljuk, snook, souk, spruik, stook, tuque, zouk noun fluːkfluk 1A parasitic flatworm which typically has suckers and hooks for attachment to the host. Some species are of veterinary or medical importance. Classes Trematoda and Monogenea, phylum Platyhelminthes. See digenean and monogenean Example sentencesExamples - In Asia the species is known to host parasitic lung flukes, which can infect humans if the crabs are eaten undercooked.
- Once infected with flukes, for instance, some species of snails have only a month or so before the parasites castrate them and turn them into food-gathering slaves.
- This is one of the critical times of the year when action should be taken to treat cattle for the control of fluke and worms.
- Primary common bile duct stones are more common in Asian populations because of the increased prevalence of flukes and parasitic infections, such as clonorchiasis, fascioliasis and ascariasis.
- The medically important flatworms are further divided into the flukes and tapeworms (Cestoda).
2North American dialect A flatfish, especially a flounder. Example sentencesExamples - The fluke, a flatfish similar to flounder, scratched that special itch for me.
- Seafood specialties like halibut, fluke, and grouper and the unique world of micro greens have done much to influence his opinion of American food culture.
- With flounder, sole, fluke, turbot, halibut, bass, trout, John Dory or orange roughy, we must tread lightly, especially with regard to bitterness.
Origin Old English flōc (in (sense 2)), of Germanic origin; related to German flach 'flat'. noun fluːkfluk 1A broad triangular plate on the arm of an anchor. Example sentencesExamples - On Vanderlin, rubbish left by Asiatics: a wooden anchor with one fluke, three boat rudders of violet wood, remains of blue cotton trousers.
- Hanging from the centre of the dome is an anchor shape with red and green lanterns at the end of the anchor flukes.
- Having said that, on the seabed to the port side of the bows lies a large iron pendant, perhaps the remains of an anchor with broken flukes.
- At Zephyros, in 30m of water, the flukes of a sizeable anchor are visible, the chain running along the base of a cliff which rises spectacularly some 10m off the seabed.
2Either of the lobes of a whale's tail. Example sentencesExamples - We have six humpback whales who are individually recognisable by their tail flukes.
- In addition, a gray whale when diving nearly always shows its tail flukes (fluke-up dive).
- Ambulocetus is cited as showing that spinal undulation evolved in whales before development of a tail fluke, but that claim was made when only one lumbar and one caudal vertebra were known.
- The boat team tracks the whales, takes photographs of the humpback's unique tail flukes and snips off small DNA skin samples or biopsies, using special darts.
- And often the tail fluke of a whale or the back fin of a dolphin will show as a dark patch against the paler surface of the sea.
- Calambokidis' team has photographed and recognized around 1,500 blue whales by tail fluke and back markings.
- He had a ‘not very good’ minke whale steak in a restaurant in Oslo, he ate blue whale in Canada, and bought flakes of bowhead tail flukes in a supermarket in California.
- Water flowed down the erect tail, or flukes, to give the impression of a whale diving in the sea.
- The tail fluke lacks a medial notch and the flippers are small and pointed.
- Similar to the patterns on humpback whale flukes, unique markings on the dolphins' dorsal fins allow for individual identification.
- Many whales are alive today, and they swim by dorsoventral undulation of their tail flukes.
- Whales have streamlike bodies with highly compressed neck vertebrae, dorsal fins, and a tail with two finlike flukes arranged horizontally.
- This was shown as an animal with a long snaky body, with flippers and smallish flukes on the tail.
- Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
- Position of control surfaces (ie., flippers, fin, flukes, peduncle) provides a generally stable design with respect to an arrow model.
- The nicks and notches in the fluke and dorsal fin help with identification, and the photos go into a photo ID catalogue which helps determine population size and migration patterns.
- They also practice bottom feeding and are observed in the lagoons with their immature tail stocks and flukes sticking straight up in the air.
- He said the sculpture would depict a whale with its flukes, or tail, raised in the air but could not say what size the sculpture would be.
- Ambulocetus apparently swam much like an otter, with an up-and-down motion of the spine, the precursor to the motion of the flukes of a whale's tail.
- The pectoral fins and flukes of males are also larger than those of females.
Origin Mid 16th century: perhaps from fluke2 (because of the shape). nounflo͞okfluk An unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck. their triumph was no fluke Example sentencesExamples - We would say, in fact, that B's failure to castle was a fluke, bad luck with the random number generator.
- It was a bit of a fluke but everyone at the club was delighted and so was I.
- When we got it last year we felt it was a bit of a fluke but then we turned around and did it two years on the trot.
- The confidence is brewing in Southern California, and the Bolts are out to prove last year's surprise was less fluke and more the start of a trend.
- Pile said the fire was a fluke occurrence and doesn't indicate a problem with the submarines.
- The fluke was a bit insipid, but then again this was a test-run: after this first experience, I'm willing to give anything Todd serves a second go.
- If Helena's experience wasn't a fluke, something similar should have happened in other jurisdictions with smoking bans.
- ‘My modeling career was a bit of a fluke,’ she says.
- I left that meeting with the shooters confident my experience was simply a fluke, an accident that was so unlikely it never could happen again.
- There's a huge amount of fluke and chance and accident.
- As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.
- And you'll never know the joy that fans in the rest of the country will experience when the fluke happens and the Yankees lose this year.
- It's the only song I scored as low as Switzerland which, through luck, fluke or divine intervention, received precisely the number of points it deserved: a big fat zero.
- Some of them, by genetic fluke or bad luck, are not here even by choice, unconscious or no.
- Luck, in the sense of a fluke occurrence, had nothing to do with it.
- As it turns out, they're not that great a side and that win was a bit of a fluke, but I think they've got the potential to make the finals - they just need a coach who isn't a bleached blonde surfer dude flake.
- For many of us, success and failure turn on lucky breaks and fluke occurrences - starting most importantly with the accident of birth.
- Charlie's condition is a fluke so the chance of any future siblings having it are just one in 50.
- Contrary to what Bettman might think, a fluke occurrence can not be used as precedent: after all, a fluke occurrence is by definition rare.
- On the tiny chance it was a fluke, I'm banking on my artistic abilities.
Synonyms chance, coincidence, accident, a twist of fate
Origin Mid 19th century (originally a term in games such as billiards denoting a lucky stroke): perhaps a dialect word. nounflo͞okfluk 1A parasitic flatworm which typically has suckers and hooks for attachment to the host. Some species are of veterinary or medical importance. Classes Trematoda and Monogenea, phylum Platyhelminthes. See digenean and monogenean Example sentencesExamples - The medically important flatworms are further divided into the flukes and tapeworms (Cestoda).
- This is one of the critical times of the year when action should be taken to treat cattle for the control of fluke and worms.
- Primary common bile duct stones are more common in Asian populations because of the increased prevalence of flukes and parasitic infections, such as clonorchiasis, fascioliasis and ascariasis.
- Once infected with flukes, for instance, some species of snails have only a month or so before the parasites castrate them and turn them into food-gathering slaves.
- In Asia the species is known to host parasitic lung flukes, which can infect humans if the crabs are eaten undercooked.
2North American dialect A flatfish, especially a flounder. Example sentencesExamples - The fluke, a flatfish similar to flounder, scratched that special itch for me.
- Seafood specialties like halibut, fluke, and grouper and the unique world of micro greens have done much to influence his opinion of American food culture.
- With flounder, sole, fluke, turbot, halibut, bass, trout, John Dory or orange roughy, we must tread lightly, especially with regard to bitterness.
Origin Old English flōc (in fluke (sense 2)), of Germanic origin; related to German flach ‘flat’. nounflo͞okfluk 1A broad triangular plate on the arm of an anchor. Example sentencesExamples - Hanging from the centre of the dome is an anchor shape with red and green lanterns at the end of the anchor flukes.
- On Vanderlin, rubbish left by Asiatics: a wooden anchor with one fluke, three boat rudders of violet wood, remains of blue cotton trousers.
- Having said that, on the seabed to the port side of the bows lies a large iron pendant, perhaps the remains of an anchor with broken flukes.
- At Zephyros, in 30m of water, the flukes of a sizeable anchor are visible, the chain running along the base of a cliff which rises spectacularly some 10m off the seabed.
- 1.1 Either of the lobes of a whale's tail.
Example sentencesExamples - And often the tail fluke of a whale or the back fin of a dolphin will show as a dark patch against the paler surface of the sea.
- He had a ‘not very good’ minke whale steak in a restaurant in Oslo, he ate blue whale in Canada, and bought flakes of bowhead tail flukes in a supermarket in California.
- Many whales are alive today, and they swim by dorsoventral undulation of their tail flukes.
- This was shown as an animal with a long snaky body, with flippers and smallish flukes on the tail.
- Water flowed down the erect tail, or flukes, to give the impression of a whale diving in the sea.
- He said the sculpture would depict a whale with its flukes, or tail, raised in the air but could not say what size the sculpture would be.
- The nicks and notches in the fluke and dorsal fin help with identification, and the photos go into a photo ID catalogue which helps determine population size and migration patterns.
- Ambulocetus is cited as showing that spinal undulation evolved in whales before development of a tail fluke, but that claim was made when only one lumbar and one caudal vertebra were known.
- Whales have streamlike bodies with highly compressed neck vertebrae, dorsal fins, and a tail with two finlike flukes arranged horizontally.
- In addition, a gray whale when diving nearly always shows its tail flukes (fluke-up dive).
- Calambokidis' team has photographed and recognized around 1,500 blue whales by tail fluke and back markings.
- The pectoral fins and flukes of males are also larger than those of females.
- Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
- They also practice bottom feeding and are observed in the lagoons with their immature tail stocks and flukes sticking straight up in the air.
- The tail fluke lacks a medial notch and the flippers are small and pointed.
- Position of control surfaces (ie., flippers, fin, flukes, peduncle) provides a generally stable design with respect to an arrow model.
- The boat team tracks the whales, takes photographs of the humpback's unique tail flukes and snips off small DNA skin samples or biopsies, using special darts.
- Similar to the patterns on humpback whale flukes, unique markings on the dolphins' dorsal fins allow for individual identification.
- Ambulocetus apparently swam much like an otter, with an up-and-down motion of the spine, the precursor to the motion of the flukes of a whale's tail.
- We have six humpback whales who are individually recognisable by their tail flukes.
Origin Mid 16th century: perhaps from fluke (because of the shape). |