3 entries found for duck.
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Function: verb
Text: 1 to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery <don't try to duck your commitment to babysit by pretending you have to be someplace else> -- see ESCAPE 2
2 to move suddenly aside or to and fro <duck behind a pillar before they see us> -- see DODGE 1
3 to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid <ducked the new camper in the lake as a joke> -- see DIP 1