potluck.
A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available.
Meaning & usage
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.
Whatever is available in a particular situation.
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.
The last draft or portion of an alcoholic beverage in a pot or other drinking vessel.
Where this word comes from
From pot + luck. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, sense 3 (“a shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought”) is unlikely to have been influenced by potlatch.
To take part in a potluck, where each participant brings a meal to be shared by all.
Where this word comes from
From pot + luck. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, sense 3 (“a shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought”) is unlikely to have been influenced by potlatch.
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