Usually means: Skipping flat stones on water.
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  1. ducks and_drakes: Merriam-Webster.com
  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
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  6. ducks and_drakes: Wiktionary
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  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)
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  13. ducks and_drakes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Ducks and Drakes: The Word Detective
  15. ducks and_drakes: Dictionary/thesaurus
  16. Ducks and drakes: World Wide Words

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  1. ducks and_drakes: Encyclopedia

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  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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