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UK
/flˈuːk/
]
[ US /ˈfɫuk/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫuk/ ]
NOUN
- a stroke of luck
- either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
- parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
- flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- a barb on a harpoon or arrow
How To Use fluke In A Sentence
- Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
- As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.
- Before anyone says that this was going to happen anyway, remember that political pros were saying two years ago that Napolitano was a one term fluke, early this year Republicans were salivating about a possible 2/3 majority House and Senate, and it took some foresight to see that a decent candidate could be recruited to take out J. Archive 2006-12-01
- The fish killed included bass, roach, eels and fluke when the temperature soared to twenty six degrees Centigrade.
- The publication of Quantum Leaps is not a fluke; rather it is an exceptionally clear manifestation of the taint, stigma, and taboo surrounding the paranormal.
- Charlie's condition is a fluke so the chance of any future siblings having it are just one in 50.
- Each of the plurality of flukes may be provided with an inwardly sloped bill segment at a distal end of the fluke.
- New york is sitting on the mother lode of fluke right now," says the DEC's Gilmore, "but we are restricted by the 1998 quota. Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City
- They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market. Inside New York City's Fishy Black Market
- Many thought last year was a fluke. Times, Sunday Times
