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

Derived forms: lucked out, lucks out, lucking out

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