hit the jackpot

1. 1.

   succeed by luck

   “I lucked out and found the last parking spot in the lot”

   Synonymsluck out

   Broadersucceed

Questions about hit the jackpot

What does hit the jackpot mean?

hit the jackpot means "succeed by luck".

What is another word for hit the jackpot?

Close synonyms include luck out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hit the jackpot a common word?

hit the jackpot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.