flukenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/fluːk/us/fluːk/informalsomething good that has happened that is the result of chance instead of skill or planning:
The first goal was just a fluke.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chance and randomness
- accident
- arbitrary
- as luck would have it idiom
- be the luck of the draw idiom
- casual
- circumstance
- haphazard
- happen
- happenstance
- harum-scarum
- hit-and-miss
- lottery
- more by accident than design idiom
- more by luck than judgment idiom
- one in a million idiom
- postcode lottery
- pot luck
- serendipity
- stochastic
- stumble into sth
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fluky
adjective flukier, flukiest also flukey uk/ˈfluː.ki/us/ˈfluː.ki/