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

  • Frogs and ducks have rakes.
  • He entombed his little ducking.
  • Suddenly, the duck stopped quacks.
  • Not all ducks have the same quacks.
  • The ducks were dancing to the music.
  • He continues to gibber about a duck.
  • It was a morass, the home of wild ducks and eels.
  • Meanwhile, the dog and the duck continue bouncing.
  • The duck snores, causing the rabbit to play by choking the duck.
  • The duck decoy was a method, perfected in the Netherlands, of catching ducks.

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