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lucking into

lucking into is the present participle and gerund of luck into.

Meaning of luck into

Verb

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To find by chance, to chance upon.
    • One rainy day, while working in an area that was mostly grain farmers, I lucked into a situation that would dramatically change my pattern of working a township.2009, Stan Barnes, What I Learned in Life from a Liquid Manure Pit, page 109

Questions about lucking into

What is lucking into the present participle and gerund of?
Lucking into is the present participle and gerund of luck into.

Words near lucking into in the dictionary

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

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