duck
IPA: dˈʌk
noun
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
- (US, LGBT, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- A town in North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
verb
- (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
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Examples of "duck" in Sentences
- You can certainly see where the term duck egg blue evolved from.
- This duck is an albino, whatever species (definitely looks like a redhead).
- That song Ernie sings in the bath tub about how much he loves his duck is a bit questionable too. stu
- If it walks like a duck is a fallacious argument when the people who claim as much are using a straw man.
- The "bean counting" approach to qualifying students with standardized tests, curriculum, etc. has led to what Asian students call a "duck feeding" approach to education for westerners unfamiliar with the term "duck feeding," think about how foie gras is produced with the student being the duck, and education being the food that they force down their throats.
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