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duck

English

  1. 🔊 small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
  2. 🔊 a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave
  3. 🔊 flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
  4. 🔊 (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
  5. 🔊 to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
    “Before he could duck, another stone struck him”
  6. 🔊 submerge or plunge suddenly
  7. 🔊 dip into a liquid
    “He dipped into the pool”
  8. 🔊 avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
    “He dodged the issue”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ánade duck
  2. 🔊 agachar to duck
  3. 🔊 curro duck, drake
  4. 🔊 pato duck, drake

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