Lexic.us

Definition of Lucky dip

1. Noun. A game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at random.

2. Noun. A selection or decision purely at random. "Their system of hiring people seemed to be a sort of lucky dip"

Definition of Lucky dip

1. Noun. A game in which prizes are covered up and mixed together in a container, so that contestants can dip their hand into the container and randomly pull out a prize. ¹

2. Noun. (context: by extension idiomatic figuratively) A selection solely at random. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucky Dip

luckiness luckinesses lucking lucking in lucking out luckless lucklessly lucklessness lucks lucks in

lucks out lucky lucky break lucky breaks lucky charm lucky dip (current term) lucky dips lucky loser lucky losers lucky proach

lucmo lucotherapy lucrative lucratively lucrativeness lucrativenesses lucre lucres lucriferous lucrific

Literary usage of Lucky dip

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Children's Party and Games Book by Joyce Nicholson (1979)
"lucky dip OR FISHING POOL Small children love a lucky dip. Buy a number of small, very inexpensive ... An alternative to the lucky dip is a 'Fishing Pond'. ..."

2. Love by Léonie Aminoff (1922)
"Then, being Bonaparte, he took it out again and took another lucky dip. The cuckoo's note a little while, A little while earth's dear smile; The greenery, ..."

3. The Queen's Jubilee and Toronto "called Back" from 1887 to 1847: Its by Conyngham Crawford Taylor (1887)
"... hundreds of Aunt Sallies and knock-'em-downs, a hundred large lucky dip barrels, a thousand skipping ropes with jubilee handles, 10000 small balloons, ..."

4. Hyde Park from Domesday-book to Date by John Ashton (1896)
"There were 100 large lucky- dip barrels, and a great distribution of presents, to the number of 42000, consisting of skipping-ropes, money-boxes, dolls, ..."

5. Our Sentimental Garden by Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle (1914)
"A lucky dip, that! YOU may come across yesterday's cauliflower, a bit of forgotten sweetbread, a slice of sausage, a frizzled artichoke, and half the quail ..."

6. Track by Trevor Cree (2005)
"Alexander could only marvel at this state of affairs compared to his own lucky dip method of packing. His trance was sharply broken by Sonja saying, ..."

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