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# fluke

noun (a fluke, flukes)

«fluke» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A fluke is a lucky chance, something good that happened by accident, not because of skill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#m1)
2. A fluke is a flat parasitic worm that can live inside animals or people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#m2)
3. The flukes are the two flat parts of a whale's tail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#m3)
4. A fluke is the flat pointed part of an anchor's arm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#m4)
5. A fluke can also mean the tail fin of a fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#m5)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and sport, «It was a fluke!» means a goal or win happened by luck. In maths and science, a fluke result is an odd one that probably happened by chance, so you repeat the test. In nature lessons, whale-watchers see the flukes when a whale dives.

### Examples

- That goal was a total fluke! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#x1)
- Was it skill or a fluke? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#x2)
- Repeat the experiment in case the result was a fluke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#x3)
- The whale lifted its flukes and dived. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#x4)
- Liver flukes can make sheep ill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#x5)
- Winning the raffle twice was a fluke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#x6)
- He passed by fluke, not by revising. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#x7)
- Puddock he swam down the brook, Sir Drake he catched him in his fluke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/#x8)

### Note

Countable: flukes. Adjective: «flukey» or «fluky» (informal). In science, one strange result can be a fluke; that is why scientists repeat tests and take averages.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fluke» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fluke/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fluke» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fluke.html) on Mova free.