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duck
1. informal An odd, peculiar, or eccentric person. Usually used after those sorts of modifiers. His new girlfriend is nice enough, but she's a bit of an odd duck, don't you think? Most of my family thinks I'm something of a strange duck. I just like doing things my own unique way, I guess.
2. informal A term of endearment, especially for a loved one. Primarily heard in UK. A: "Hello, my little duck. How are you?" B: "Hi, Grandad. I'm fine."
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duck
verbSee deduck
duck
1. n. a male urinal bedpan. (Hospitals.) Somebody in room 212 needs a duck.
2. tv. to avoid someone or something. Clare is ducking her responsibility.
3. Go to deduck.
4. n. a ticket. (Probably akin to ducats.) Did you buy the ducks early, or do we have to stand in line?
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- (as) easy as duck soup
- (as) happy as a duck in Arizona
- a dead duck
- a lame duck
- a sitting duck
- a sitting duck/target
- all duck or no dinner
- all one's ducks in a row, get/have
- as a duck takes to water
- ay up me duck
- be (like) water off a duck's back
- be a dead duck
- be duck soup
- be water off a duck's back
- break (one's) duck
- break your duck
- could eat the arse out of a low-flying duck
- could eat the crotch out of a low-flying duck
- could eat the crutch out of a low-flying duck
- dead duck
- dead duck, a
- deduck
- duck
- duck and cover
- duck and dive
- duck butt
- duck down
- duck face
- duck out
- duck soup
- duck soup, like
- duck test
- duck-butt
- ducking and diving
- ducks and drakes
- duck-squeezer
- easy as A, B, C
- fine weather for ducks
- get (one's) ducks in a row
- get ducks in a row
- get one's ducks in a row
- get your ducks in a row
- get/have your ducks in a row
- God love a duck!
- golden duck
- happy as a duck in Arizona
- have (one's) ducks in a row
- have all (of) (one's) ducks in a row
- hunt where the ducks are
- if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck
- knee-high to a duck
- lame duck
- lame duck, a
- like a duck to water
- like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
- like water off a duck's back
- Lord love a duck!
- Lovely weather for ducks
- lucky duck
- make ducks and drakes of
- make ducks and drakes of (something)
- milk a duck
- milking a duck
- mud duck
- odd duck
- play ducks and drakes with
- play ducks and drakes with (one)
- play ducks and drakes with someone
- pour water on a duck's back
- queer duck
- sitting duck
- sitting duck, a
- strange duck
- take to
- take to (something) like a duck to water
- take to it like a duck to water, to
- take to something like a duck to water