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duck out

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duck out (of somewhere)
to leave a place quickly and without being noticed. The press was waiting for us in front of the hospital, so we ducked out a side door into the car.
Usage notes: often said about leaving before an event is finished: She ducked out of the dinner to watch the last quarter of the game.
Related vocabulary: slip away
See also: duck

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, of robbing an orchard, of stealing a duck out of a farmer's yard, and of picking Master Blifil's pocket of a ball.
 
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