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chuck-a-luck

/chuhk-uh-luhk/US // ˈtʃʌk əˌlʌk //

撵人,撵走,撵风,撵风车

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a game played with three dice at which the players bet that a certain number will come up on one die, that the three dice will total a certain number, or that the total will be an odd number, even number, a high number, or a low number.

Examples

  • ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

  • Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

  • By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.

  • In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.

  • And good luck getting the song (and music video) to “Chandelier” out of your head.

  • Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

  • G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.

  • He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!

  • All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.

  • I wouldn't go on if I were you, sir; the luck's dead against you to-night; I wouldn't go on, indeed I wouldn't.