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Verb: hit the jackpot
Usage: informal
  1. Have unexpected good fortune
    "I hit the jackpot and found the last parking spot in the lot";
    - luck out [N. Amer], luck [informal]

Derived forms: hits the jackpot, hitting the jackpot, hit the jackpot

Type of: bring home the bacon [informal], come through, come up trumps [Brit, informal], deliver the goods, succeed, turn up trumps [Brit, informal], win