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good luck

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk/
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Noun

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good luck (uncountable)

  1. Desirable or beneficial fortune.
    • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
      [] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
        Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. []

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Interjection

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good luck

  1. Used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement; a benediction or valediction.
    Synonyms: best of luck; (chiefly in the entertainment industry) break a leg; come on; more power to your elbow; toi, toi, toi; (opera) [Term?]
    Coordinate term: goodbye
    Near-synonym: God bless

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This expression is considered to bring bad luck in the theatre, where – according to superstition – break a leg should be used in its place.

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