potluck : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: potluck	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for potluck
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
potluck n 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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Potluck \Pot"luck`\, n. 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. {To take potluck}, to take what food may chance to be provided.