Usually means: Hopeless, unsuccessful, doomed to fail.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word dead duck:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead duck: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead duck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead duck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dead duck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dead duck: Vocabulary.com
  6. dead duck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dead duck: Wiktionary
  8. dead duck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. dead duck: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dead duck: Dictionary.com
  11. dead duck: Rhymezone
  12. dead duck: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dead duck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. dead duck: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. dead duck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead duck: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead duck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dead duck: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dead duck)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) One who is in serious danger or trouble.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A project that is doomed to failure from the start.

Similar:
duck, sitting duck, decoy-duck, odd duck, shark bait, lucky duckling, queer duck, lucky duck, mud duck, ruddy, more...

Opposite:
live duck, thriving duck, successful duck

Types:
goner, loser, has-been, hopeless case, doomed, more...

Phrases:
dead as duck, more...

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Similar:
duck, sitting duck, decoy-duck, odd duck, shark bait, lucky duckling, queer duck, lucky duck, mud duck, ruddy, more...

Opposite:
live duck, thriving duck, successful duck

Types:
goner, loser, has-been, hopeless case, doomed, more...

Phrases:
dead as duck, more...



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