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lucks out

lucks out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 lucks out

What is lucks out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lucks out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of luck out.

Words near lucks out in the dictionary

  1. luckpennies
  2. luckpenny
  3. lucks
  4. lucks in
  5. lucks into
  6. lucks out
  7. lucks through
  8. luckshit
  9. Lucksinger
  10. lucksome
  11. lucky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lucks 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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