Definitions for ducks

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ducks duck

Spelling: [duhk]

IPA: /dʌk/

Ducks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in ducks (cdksu).

Definitions for ducks

noun

1. any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
2. the female of this bird, as distinguished from the male. Compare drake1 .
3. the flesh of this bird, eaten as food.
4. Informal. person; individual:
5. a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
6. ducks, (used with a singular verb) British Slang. ducky2 .
7. Cricket Slang. failure of a batsman to score: a player's score of zero: Compare goose egg.
8. an act or instance of ducking.
9. a heavy, plain-weave cotton fabric for tents, clothing, bags, etc., in any of various weights and widths.
10. ducks, (used with a plural verb) slacks or trousers made of this material.
11. DUKW.

Idioms

1. water off a duck's back, something that has little or no effect:

verb (used with object)

1. to lower suddenly:
2. to avoid or evade (a blow, unpleasant task, etc.); dodge:
3. to plunge or dip in water momentarily.
4. Cards Informal. to play a card lower than (the card led).

verb (used without object)

1. to stoop or bend suddenly; bob.
2. to avoid or evade a blow, unpleasant task, etc.; dodge.
3. to plunge the whole body or the head momentarily under water.
4. Cards Informal. to play a card lower than the card led.

Origin of ducks

before 1000; Middle English duk, doke, Old English dūce diver, duck; akin to duck²

Examples for ducks

No other noise could disturb us but the cackling of hens and the quacking of ducks.

As happens with arguments that start in bars, the men hauled their ducks to a farm pond and raced.

Surely the Goldwater debacle had demonstrated a severe shortage of ducks in the anti-desegregation ranks?

So it turns out that Todd Akin was right, but only about ducks, not actual human women.

A pot pie may be made of ducks, rabbits, squirrels, or venison.

Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds.

She fussed around like any other old hen who had in charge a brood of ducks.

Shot six ducks; great numbers were in the river, also white cockatoos.

No, she really is; she dives away from cars, outruns planes, ducks away from falling buses.

Fine pools for the first six miles, with numbers of ducks in them.