potluck Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all
    • having arrived unannounced we had to take potluck
    • a potluck supper

WordNet

Pot"luck` noun
Definitions
  1. Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.
    A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on. G. Eliot.

Webster 1913