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▸ 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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