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lucking out

lucking out is the present participle and gerund 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 lucking out

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

Words near lucking out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lucking 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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