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chuck-luck

chuck-luck is the alternative form of chuck-a-luck.

Meaning of chuck-a-luck

Noun

chuck-a-luck (uncountable)

  1. A game of chance in which players bet on combinations of three dice.
    • Mumble-the-peg, poker, fuzzy-guzzy, chuck-a-luck and other innocent amusements if not taught to children, were the principal social events […]1991, Don Hampton Biggers, Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts, page 133

Questions about chuck-luck

What is chuck-luck the alternative form of?
Chuck-luck is the alternative form of chuck-a-luck.

Words near chuck-luck in the dictionary

  1. chuck-a-luck
  2. chuck-farthing
  3. chuck-full
  4. chuck-in
  5. chuck-ins
  6. chuck-luck
  7. chuck-will's-widow
  8. chuck-will's-widows
  9. chuckable
  10. chuckawalla
  11. chuckawallas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chuck-luck (page history and authors); chuck-a-luck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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