Usually means: Guests bring dishes to share.
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  1. potluck: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. potluck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. potluck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. potluck: Vocabulary.com
  5. Potluck, potluck: Wordnik
  6. potluck: Wiktionary
  7. potluck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. potluck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. potluck: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Potluck, potluck: Dictionary.com
  11. potluck: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Potluck (group), Potluck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Potluck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. potluck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. potluck: Rhymezone
  16. Potluck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. potluck: Free Dictionary
  18. potluck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. potluck: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. potluck: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (dated) A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available.
noun:  (by extension) Whatever is available in a particular situation.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) The last draft or portion of an alcoholic beverage in a pot or other drinking vessel.
verb:  (intransitive) To take part in a potluck, where each participant brings a meal to be shared by all.

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