Usually means: Fake doctor, fraudulent medical practice.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. quack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quack: Merriam-Webster
  3. quack, quack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quack, quack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quack: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quack: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quack, quack: Wordnik
  8. quack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quack: Wiktionary
  10. quack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quack: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. quack: Dictionary.com
  14. quack (n.), quack (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quack (album), Quack (horse), Quack, The Quack (horse), The Quack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Quack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quack: Rhymezone
  20. quack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. quack: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Quack: The Word Detective
  25. quack: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Quack: World Wide Words
  27. quack: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. quack: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quack: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. quack: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Quack: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. quack: Medical dictionary
  7. Quack: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. QUACK: Acronym Finder
  2. quack: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quack, quack, quack, quack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The sound made by a duck.
verb:  To make a noise like a duck.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
noun:  (derogatory) A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory) Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
noun:  (humorous slang, mildly derogatory) Any doctor.
verb:  To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
verb:  (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions.
adjective:  Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

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