"luck out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-luck out.ogg [Australia] Forms: lucks out [present, singular, third-person], lucking out [participle, present], lucked out [participle, past], lucked out [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: colloquial, idiomatic Related terms: luck in Translations (to experience great luck): onnistaa (Finnish), käydä onni (Finnish), käydä tuuri (Finnish), olla onnea (Finnish), avoir le cul bordé de nouilles [vulgar] (French), გაუმართლებს (gaumartlebs) (Georgian), ბედი გაუღიმებს (bedi gauɣimebs) (Georgian), Schwein haben (German), tener suerte (Spanish), tener un golpe de suerte (Spanish), ha tur (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-luck_out-en-verb-qT7HRYMJ Categories (other): English phrasal verbs with particle (out), Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to experience great luck",
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      "sense": "to experience great luck",
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      "sense": "to experience great luck",
      "word": "tener suerte"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to experience great luck",
      "word": "tener un golpe de suerte"
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