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piece of luck

piece of luck is the alternative form of stroke of luck.

Meaning of stroke of luck

Noun

stroke of luck (plural strokes of luck)

  1. (idiomatic) An instance of unexpected luck, usually good luck.
    • What makes this accident so significant is that Hunt's southbound goods train was loaded with ammunition bound for the First World War battle zone. The major stroke of luck was that the 39 trucks loaded with ammunition did not explode as a result of the collision, and that there was no fire from...2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 52
    Synonyms:
    piece of luck

Forms of piece of luck

pluralpieces of luck

Questions about piece of luck

What is piece of luck the alternative form of?
Piece of luck is the alternative form of stroke of luck.

Words near piece of luck in the dictionary

  1. piece of furniture
  2. piece of garbage
  3. piece of goods
  4. piece of homework
  5. piece of junk
  6. piece of luck
  7. piece of meat
  8. piece of paper
  9. piece of piss
  10. piece of poop
  11. piece of pork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piece of luck (page history and authors); stroke of 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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