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n. - The act of wetting something by submerging it; Hunting a type of water fowl.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Verb (used with object) : Duck your head going through that low doorway. ,to duck a hard right; to duck an embarrassing question
  • I wonder what people will say about Mr Duckabee and McCain ducking from OBAMA.
  • In fairness, you do seem to be spending a lot of energy in ducking the further clarification.
  • I shall not attempt to give any list of the so-called ducking
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