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lucking

lucking is the present participle and gerund of luck.

Meaning of luck

Verb

luck (third-person singular simple present lucks, present participle lucking, simple past and past participle lucked)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To find something through good fortune; used with into, on, onto or upon.
    • I lucked upon a seat, settled in, nodded off and 20 minutes later heard my name being called by the admitting nurse.2004 December, The Crisis, volume 111, page 50

See all 7 meanings of luck

Proper noun capitalized: Lucking

Lucking (plural Luckings)

  1. A surname from Old English.

Forms of lucking

pluralLuckings

Origin of lucking

Variant of Lufkin.

Phrases with lucking

Questions about lucking

What does lucking mean?
Lucking means a surname from Old English.
What is lucking the present participle and gerund of?
Lucking is the present participle and gerund of luck.
What part of speech is lucking?
Lucking is a proper noun.

Words near lucking in the dictionary

  1. luckiest
  2. luckily
  3. Luckin
  4. luckiness
  5. luckinesses
  6. lucking
  7. lucking in
  8. lucking into
  9. lucking out
  10. lucking through
  11. Luckings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lucking (page history and authors); Lucking (page history and authors); 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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