[usuallysing.] (informal) a lucky or unusual thing that happens by accident, not because of planning or skill:
They are determined to show that their last win was no fluke. * It was a sheer fluke that no one was hurt in the bomb blast. * a fluke goal
fluky (also flukey) adjective
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