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FLUKEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flukey mean?
• FLUKEY (adjective)
The adjective FLUKEY has 1 sense:
1. subject to accident or chance or change
Familiarity information: FLUKEY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: flukier
Superlative: flukiest
Superlative: flukiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to accident or chance or change
Synonyms:
Context example:
an iffy proposition
Similar:
uncertain (not certain to occur; not inevitable)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
fluke (a stroke of luck)
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