Definition of Fluke

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Definition of Fluke

Fluke

The European flounder. See Flounder.

A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.

The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.

One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.

An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.

To get or score by a fluke; as, to fluke a play in billiards.

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Fluke Quotations

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
Jack Nicklaus

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Patrick Stewart

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.
Shawn Ashmore

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.
Kelly Lynch

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
James Welch

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
Terry McMillan

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.
Willard Scott

Fluke Translations

fluke in Spanish is chiripa

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