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fluke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | good fortune, good luck |
| Type of | fortune, luck |
| Has types | serendipity |
| Derivation | flukey, fluky |
fluke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flue |
| Type of | projection |
fluke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | trematode, trematode worm |
| Type of | flatworm, platyhelminth |
| Has types | fasciolopsis buski, schistosome, fasciola hepatica, liver fluke, blood fluke |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | barb |
fluke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | tail |
Examples of fluke
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It was a national institution, not a Southern fluke or a sin of the wealthy few.
From the cnn.com
We want to prove to people in this area that the year we made it wasn't a fluke.
From the dailyherald.com
Giampaolo Giuliani gave warnings, but researchers wonder whether it was a fluke.
From the latimes.com
Was Wisky a fluke or do the Bucks have issues they may not overcome this season.
From the dispatch.com
Fluke with arugula, strawberry and pistachio at Ma Peche restaurant in New York.
From the bloomberg.com
She worries that the findings are a fluke and that her health could go downhill.
From the usatoday.com
He proved it was no fluke when he won two years later in a newly drawn district.
From the caucuses.desmoinesregister.com
Frankly, I think the Wings would prefer to have played well and lost on a fluke.
From the freep.com
A couple years down the road, it will turn out to have been a statistical fluke.
From the latimes.com
- Good luck: a stroke of luck
- A barb on a harpoon or arrow
- Flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- Either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
- Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
- Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier with Julian Nugent as the band's manager. ...
- Fluke Corporation, a subsidiary of the Danaher Corporation, is a worldwide industrial company that mostly focuses on industrial testing equipment including electronic test equipment. It was started in 1948 by John Fluke, Sr. ...
- Fluke is a 1995 film directed by Carlo Carlei and starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Nancy Travis, Max Pomeranc and the voice of Samuel L. Jackson. Bill Cobbs, Ron Perlman, and Jon Polito co-star. It was based on the novel of the same name by James Herbert.
- James Herbert, OBE (born 8 April 1943, London) is a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. He is a full-time writer who also designs his own book covers and publicity.
