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duck   (TTS Sound)

The noun duck has 4 senses

• duck -- (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)


• duck, duck's egg -- ((cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman)


• duck -- (flesh of a duck (domestic or wild))


• duck -- (a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents)

The verb duck has 4 senses

• duck -- (to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him")


• duck -- (submerge or plunge suddenly)


• dip, douse, duck -- (dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool")


• hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep -- (avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully")