Usually means: Accidental success; stroke of luck.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluke: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fluke, fluke, fluke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fluke, fluke, fluke: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fluke: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fluke: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fluke, fluke: Wordnik
  7. fluke: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fluke, fluke: Wiktionary
  9. fluke: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fluke: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fluke: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fluke: Dictionary.com
  13. fluke (1), fluke (2), fluke (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fluke: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fluke (album), Fluke (band), Fluke (film), Fluke (fish), Fluke (flatworm), Fluke (novel), Fluke (parasite), Fluke (tail), Fluke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fluke: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fluke: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fluke: Rhymezone
  19. Fluke: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fluke: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fluke: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fluke: Free Dictionary
  23. fluke: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. fluke: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Fluke: The Word Detective
  26. fluke: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fluke: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fluke: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. fluke: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fluke: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fluke, fluke, fluke, fluke: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the fluke: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. FLUKE: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Fluke: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.
verb:  To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.
verb:  (snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.
noun:  A summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus)
noun:  A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda, related to tapeworms (class Cestoda).
noun:  (nautical) Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
noun:  Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
noun:  A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
noun:  In general, a winglike formation on a central piece.
noun:  Waste cotton.
noun:  A surname.

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