duck

1. (n) An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. 2. (n) (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food. 3. (v) (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something. 4. (v) (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. 5. (v) (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid. 6. (v) (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility. 7. (v) (intransitive) To bow. 8. (n) (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.) 9. (n) (slang) A playing card with the rank of two. 10. (v) (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment. 11. (n) Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling. 12. (n) A term of endearment; pet; darling. 13. (n) (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger). 14. (n) A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth. 15. (n) (in the plural) Trousers made of such material. 16. (v) (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly. 17. (n) (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace. 18. (v) (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking). 19. (n) (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”). 20. (n) (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal. 21. (n) (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”). 22. (n) (US) A cairn used to mark a trail. 23. (n) One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve. 24. (n) A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games. 25. (n) (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal. 26. (n) A surname transferred from the nickname. 27. (n) A town in North Carolina. 28. (n) An unincorporated community in West Virginia. 29. (n) Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related. [(architecture) A structure built in the style of duck architecture.] 30. (n) Ellipsis of architectural duck [(architecture) A structure built in the style of duck architecture.]