Usually means: Skipping flat stones on water.
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  1. ducks and drakes: Merriam-Webster
  2. ducks and drakes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ducks and drakes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ducks and drakes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ducks and drakes: Vocabulary.com
  6. ducks and drakes: Wiktionary
  7. ducks and drakes: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. ducks and drakes: Dictionary.com
  9. Ducks and Drakes, Ducks and drakes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. ducks and drakes: Rhymezone
  11. Ducks and Drakes: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. ducks and drakes: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ducks and drakes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Ducks and Drakes: The Word Detective
  15. ducks and drakes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Ducks and drakes: World Wide Words
  17. ducks and drakes: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ducks and drakes: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ducks and drakes, ducks and drakes: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ducks and drakes: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ducks and drakes)

noun:  A pastime of throwing flat stones across water so as to make them bounce off the surface.
noun:  (idiomatic, informal) The squandering of resources, especially money; used in expressions such as "to make ducks and drakes of", "to play (at) ducks and drakes with".

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