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lucked out

lucked out is the simple past and past participle of luck out.

Meaning of luck out

Verb

luck out (third-person singular simple present lucks out, present participle lucking out, simple past and past participle 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.2011, Lee Child, The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel, Dell, →ISBN, page 168

Questions about lucked out

What is lucked out the simple past and past participle of?
Lucked out is the simple past and past participle of luck out.

Words near lucked out in the dictionary

  1. luckboxes
  2. Lucke
  3. lucked
  4. lucked in
  5. lucked into
  6. lucked out
  7. lucked through
  8. Luckenbaugh
  9. Luckenbaughs
  10. Luckenbill
  11. Luckenbills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lucked out (page history and authors); luck out (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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