Synonyms for fluke
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1. good luck, fluke, good fortunenoun

   a stroke of luck

   Synonyms:
   flue, trematode, trematode worm, luckiness, good luck, break, happy chance, good fortune

2. flukenoun

   a barb on a harpoon or arrow

   Synonyms:
   trematode, trematode worm, good luck, good fortune, flue

3. fluke, fluenoun

   flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor

   Synonyms:
   flue, trematode, labial pipe, trematode worm, good luck, flue pipe, good fortune

4. flukenoun

   either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean

   Synonyms:
   trematode, trematode worm, good luck, good fortune, flue

5. fluke, trematode, trematode wormnoun

   parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host

   Synonyms:
   trematode, trematode worm, good luck, good fortune, flue

Matched Categories

1. • Barb
   • Flatworm
   • Projection
   • Tail

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flukenoun

   Synonyms:
   gourd-worm, fluke-worm

2. flukenoun

   Synonyms:
   turbot, flowk (platessa maximus)

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1. List of paraphrases for "fluke":

   moat, halibut, flounder

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How to use fluke in a sentence?

1. Mike Flannigan:

   This is a wake-up call, people ... think this is a one in a lifetime thing, a one off, a fluke, but it's not.

2. Dustin Poirier:

   He's Buster Douglas. It was a fluke win, and I'm going to correct it on Saturday night.

3. Adam Riess:

   The Hubble tension between the early and late universe may be the most exciting development in cosmology in decades, this mismatch has been growing and has now reached a point that is really impossible to dismiss as a fluke. This disparity could not plausibly occur just by chance.

4. Chase Elliott:

   We were literally racing for the win of the race last night, and that was no fluke or joke or setup thing, we were legitimately racing 1-2, which is incredible. Tony has been a hero of mine forever. To share the podium with both of them, I couldn’t have asked for anything to be any more special than that.

5. Steve Brusatte:

   They weren’t sharks or whales but they were at home in shallow water, it doesn’t seem like it was some kind of fluke or random occurrence that they were there They must have just been at home in these environments, he continued. Maybe they were eating there. Maybe it was a place where there weren’t so many predators so they were a bit safer. Maybe it was a way for them to cool themselves down. We don’t really know. This is a whole new question now that is kind of emerging.