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duck

1  [duhk]
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–noun, plural ducks, (especially collectively for 1, 2) duck.
1. any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, esp. of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
2. the female of this bird, as distinguished from the male. Compare drake 1 .
3. the flesh of this bird, eaten as food.
4. Informal. person; individual: He's the queer old duck with the knee-length gaiters and walrus mustache.
5. a playing marble, esp. one that is not used as a shooter.
6. ducks, (used with a singular verb) British Slang. ducky 2 .
7. Cricket Slang.
a. failure of a batsman to score: to be out for a duck.
b. a player's score of zero: to be bowled for a duck. Compare goose egg.
—Idiom
8. water off a duck's back, something that has little or no effect: Our criticisms of his talk rolled off him like water off a duck's back.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME duk, doke, OE dūce diver, duck; akin to duck 2
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Cultural Dictionary

water off a duck's back

To fail to catch on or make a mark: “The reporter's snide comments rolled off the candidate like water off a duck's back.”

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
duck

  1. n.
    a male urinal bedpan. (Hospitals.) : Somebody in room 212 needs a duck.
  2. tv.
    to avoid someone or something. : Clare is ducking her responsibility.

  3. Go to deduck. :
  4. n.
    a ticket. (Probably akin to ducats.) : Did you buy the ducks early, or do we have to stand in line?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

duck  (v.)
"to plunge into" (trans.), c.1300; to suddenly go under water (intrans.), c.1340, from presumed O.E. *ducan "to duck," found only in derivative duce (n.) "duck" (but there are cognate words in other Gmc. languages, cf. Ger. tauchen "to dive"), from P.Gmc. *dukjan. Sense of "bend, stoop quickly" is first recorded in Eng. 1530.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: duck
Pronunciation: 'd&k
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural ducks or duck
: any of various swimmingbirds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the body more or less depressed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes almost always different from each other inplumage
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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