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
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a selection or decision purely at random
their system of hiring people seemed to be a sort of lucky dip
How To Use lucky dip In A Sentence
- Fortune links you to a lucky dip prize. The Sun
- Of course, there were plenty who weren't remotely coy about it: either hoping to try their hand in the saturnalian lucky dip, or already engaged in a mutually knowing conspiracy of flirting, footsie and ward-round eye contact since mid-November. Boiling a Frog
- Enjoy coffee, tea and soft drinks, glögg with ginger cookies, bake sale and lottery, smörgasbord and hot dogs, beer and snaps, candies and Father Christmas, handicrafts and ‘lucky dip.’
- Parents, children and grandparents were able to take their chances on lucky dips and tombolas and were also able to choose Christmas gifts from around 15 stalls selling such items as cuddly toys and candles.
- Their system of hiring people seemed to be a sort of lucky dip.
- Faced with such a monumental lucky dip of shows, the best one can do is try to spot trends and cite highlights. Times, Sunday Times
- Attractions will include games, tombola, and a lucky dip as well as bric-a-brac sales.
- The pundits dip haphazardly into the lucky dip.
- The simplest way to avoid such bias is to use a lucky dip and let a computer choose. Times, Sunday Times
- But few of us have the right to condemn as few of us can say we never gamble — even if it is only investing a few pence a week in the firm's football sweep or the church bazaar "lucky dip".
