Fluke meaning

flo͝ok
The definition of a fluke is an odd occurrence that happens and is unlikely to be repeated.

An example of a fluke is a snowstorm in July.

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Any of numerous parasitic flatworms, including the trematodes, some of which infect humans, and the monogeneans, which are chiefly ectoparasites of fish.
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Any of various flatfishes chiefly of the genus Paralichthys, especially the summer flounder.
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The triangular blade at the end of an arm of an anchor, designed to catch in the ground.
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A barb or barbed head, as on an arrow or a harpoon.
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Either of the two horizontally flattened divisions of the tail of a whale.
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A chance occurrence.

That spring snowstorm was a total fluke.

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An accidentally good or successful stroke in billiards or pool.
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Any of various flatfishes, esp. a genus (Paralichthys) of flounders.
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A pointed part of an anchor, designed to catch in the ground.
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A barb or barbed head of an arrow, harpoon, etc.
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Either of the two lobes of a whale's tail.
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An accidentally good or lucky stroke in billiards, pool, etc.
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A result, esp. a successful one, brought about by accident; stroke of luck.
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To hit or get by a fluke.
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Any of numerous parasitic flatworms, including the trematodes, some of which infect humans, and the monogeneans, which are chiefly ectoparasites of fish.
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Either of the two flattened fins of a whale's tail.
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A surname​.
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Origin of fluke

  • Middle English flounder, flatfish from Old English flōc plāk-1 in Indo-European roots Sense 1, from the flounderlike shape of sheep flukes
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Possibly from fluke
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Origin unknown
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fluke Sentence Examples

  • He was Luke the Fluke, but you didn't call him that.

  • Occasionally the fluke migrates into the blood vessels and may reach the lungs, kidneys, urethra and bladder.

  • The body contains in miniature all the organs of the adult fluke, including the gonads and in addition "eye-spots," a stylet, rod-cells and cystogenous cells.

  • The former fluke is found in Europe, North Africa, Abyssinia, North Asia, South America, Australia and the Hawaiian Islands; the latter in the United States.

  • When that occurs, the cyst is dissolved and the minute fluke works its way down the alimentary canal into some part of which it inserts its suckers and commences to feed on the blood of its host.

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