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1. To move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
   "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
    
2. Submerge or plunge suddenly
    
3. Dip into a liquid
   - dip, douse
    
4. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
   - hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, sidestep, finesse

1. Small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
    
2. (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
   - duck's egg
    
3. Flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
    
4. A heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents

Derived forms: ducks, ducked, ducking

See also: ducking, duckling

Type of: anseriform bird, avoid, cloth, dip, dive, douse, dunk, fabric, material, move, plunge, plunk, poultry, score, souse, textile

Part of: Anatidae, family Anatidae

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