Noun: windfall 'win(d),fol
- A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
"the demand for testing has created a windfall for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line";
- boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy [informal], godsend, manna from heaven, bunce [Brit, informal]
- Fruit that has fallen from the tree
"They collected windfalls to make apple cider"
Derived forms: windfalls
Type of: edible fruit, happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent
Encyclopedia: Windfall, Indiana