luckily.html - {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal}
1. Suddenly to
get lucky when in fact the odds are against one's succeeding.
* /I was sure I was going to miss the train as I was three minutes late, but I lucked out, the train was five minutes late./
2. To be extraordinarily fortunate.
* /Catwallender really lucked out at Las Vegas
last month; he
came home with $10,000 in cash./
3. (By sarcastic opposition) to be extremely unfortunate; to be killed.
* /Those poor marines sure lucked out in Saigon, didn't they?/