Usually means: Waterfowl with webbed feet, quacks.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. duck: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. duck, duck, duck, duck, duck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. duck, duck, duck, duck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. duck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. duck: Vocabulary.com
  6. Duck, duck: Wordnik
  7. duck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Duck: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Duck, duck: Wiktionary
  10. duck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. duck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. duck: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. duck: Dictionary.com
  14. duck (n.1), duck (n.2), duck (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. duck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Duck (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Duck (album), Duck (bridge), Duck (cricket), Duck (disambiguation), Duck (film), Duck (food), Duck (guitar), Duck (nickname), Duck (textile), Duck (video game), Duck, The Duck (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Duck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. duck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. duck: Rhymezone
  20. duck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. duck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. DUCK, Duck: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Duck: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. duck: Free Dictionary
  25. duck: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  26. duck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. duck: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. duck: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. duck: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. duck: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. duck: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DUCK: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. duck: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duck (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. duck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. The Duck: A Seattle Lexicon
  5. The Duck, duck(s): Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duck: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)
  3. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  4. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  5. Duck: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Textile (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
verb:  (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
verb:  (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
verb:  (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
verb:  (intransitive) To bow.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something.
verb:  (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
noun:  (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
noun:  An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
noun:  Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
noun:  (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
noun:  (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
noun:  (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
noun:  A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
noun:  A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
noun:  (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
noun:  One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
noun:  (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
noun:  (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
noun:  (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
noun:  A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
noun:  (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
noun:  A term of endearment; pet; darling.
noun:  (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
verb:  (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  A town in North Carolina.
noun:  An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

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