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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread raccroc #19703 02/20/2001 5:00 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky While trying to find the word I was looking for that means a fortuitous coming together of events (which I was unsuccessful at, and darn it, it's on the tip of my tongue), I came across the following at Thesaurus.com, which seems to use mostly Roget's: "[Nouns] chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate (necessity) [more]; equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up [more]; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae." ========================================================= Has anyone heard of the word raccroc before? I don't think I'd heard tombola, either. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted raccroc Jackie 02/20/2001 5:00 AM Re: raccroc Bingley 02/20/2001 5:37 AM tombola emanuela 02/20/2001 6:24 AM Re: tombola rkay 02/20/2001 9:54 AM Re: tombola RhubarbCommando 02/20/2001 12:02 PM Re: tombola Bean 02/20/2001 1:12 PM Re: raccroc Anonymous 02/20/2001 6:50 AM Re: raccroc Jackie 02/20/2001 12:27 PM Re: raccroc wwh 02/20/2001 2:58 PM Re: raccroc wwh 02/20/2001 3:02 PM Re: raccroc tsuwm 02/20/2001 3:06 PM Re: raccroc Anonymous 02/20/2001 3:13 PM Re: raccroc Jazzoctopus 02/20/2001 10:22 PM Re: raccroc Marianna 02/20/2001 12:55 PM Re: raccroc maverick 02/20/2001 1:15 PM Re: raccroc TEd Remington 02/21/2001 12:06 AM Re: Ray Kroc Sparteye 02/21/2001 3:01 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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