luck out

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luck out

verb lucks out · lucking out · lucked out

  1. colloquial, idiomatic To experience great luck; to be extremely fortunate or lucky. I lucked out and got the last two tickets to the big show.
  2. colloquial, idiomatic To experience a misfortune; to be unlucky. The baby brother was no oil painting. He had lucked out with the genetic lottery. […] He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

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@misc{luck_out_2026,
  title = {luck out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/luck%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}