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/ˌpɒtˈlʌk/ · noun
(dated) A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available..
Here are some leftover beans and meat; we can make a good potluck stew from them.
During my Stay here, I was going to take Pot-Luck with Colonel Ingram, and accidentally meeting him in the Way, I told him I deſigned to ſoul a Plate with him, […]
Me, to pot-luck, may any friend invite: / The treat, I can return, is my delight.
Instead of frequent potluck enjoyments, it seems folks, now-a-days, regale their friends with a feast, which, if as seldom attempted as the author paints, cannot induce bankruptcy.
A pretty way to conciliate 'little tempers' indeed, to add to the offence of spoiling the fish the crime of bringing an unexpected friend to eat it. Pot luck, quotha, when the pot's boiled over this half hour!
But he never contradicted Mrs Hackit—a woman whose "pot luck" was always to be relied on, and who on her side had unlimited reliance on bleeding, blistering, and draughts.
We had just arrived at my house, and on the spur of the moment I invited Poirot to come in and take pot luck.
He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
Use pot luck when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pot luck means (dated) A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available..
Common synonyms include fuddle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Here are some leftover beans and meat; we can make a good potluck stew from them.
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