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ill-luck

ill-luck is the alternative form of ill luck.

Meaning of ill luck

Noun

ill luck (uncountable)

  1. Bad luck; misluck; misfortune.
    • Then, as we have reported, bogie defects came to light on the first few production "Deltics" [...]; these have now been remedied, but inevitably deliveries, trial running and particularly crew training were retarded as a result, so that once again ill luck has dogged the East Coast Route timetable...1961 September, “Background to the new winter timetables of the East Coast”, in Modern Railways, page 528

Questions about ill-luck

What is ill-luck the alternative form of?
Ill-luck is the alternative form of ill luck.

Words near ill-luck in the dictionary

  1. ill-judged
  2. ill-judgedly
  3. ill-kempt
  4. ill-lit
  5. ill-looking
  6. ill-luck
  7. ill-mannered
  8. ill-matched
  9. ill-named
  10. ill-natured
  11. ill-naturedly

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