Potluck

Quick meaning: Potluck is a noun meaning (by extension) Whatever is available in a particular situation.

Meaning

(by extension) Whatever is available in a particular situation.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To take part in a potluck, where each participant brings a meal to be shared by all.
2. (originally Canada, US) A shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought (sometimes without prior arrangement); a potlatch; also, a dish of food brought to such a meal.
3. (dated) A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available.
4. (obsolete) The last draft or portion of an alcoholic beverage in a pot or other drinking vessel.

Example Sentences

Here are some leftover beans and meat; we can make a good potluck stew from them.

Me, to pot-luck, may any friend invite: / The treat, I can return, is my delight.

We had just arrived at my house, and on the spur of the moment I invited Poirot to come in and take pot luck.

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, […]

Word Forms

• potlucks
• pot luck
• pot-luck
• potlucking
• potlucked

Synonyms for potluck

Depending on context, synonyms include fuddle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dinners, pot-luck, picnic, foodfest, lunch, spread.

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