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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