| 词汇 | fluke |
| 词源 | fluke. In its meaning of a good or bad chance happening, fluke was originally British slang of obscure origin, perhaps de- riving from “an accidentally successful stroke in billiards or pool,” which is first recorded in 1857. Robert L. Chapman, in New Dictionary of American Slang, suggests that the term may have come to billiards jargon from the early 1800s British slang of flat, “easy dupe, victim.” |
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