Duck

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Duck may refer to:

Animals

• Ducks, a group of water birds
• Domestic duck
• Duck (food), the meat from such birds
• Wood Duck, a perching duck
• Geoduck, a bivalve mollusk, also called the Gooey Duck, unrelated to the bird

Transportation

• Colloquial name for a Citroën 2CV
• Nickname for a Ducati motorcycle.
• DUKW, commonly pronounced duck, a type of amphibious vehicle.
• J2F Duck amphibious aircraft from Grumman
• American Canyon Transit is also known as The Duck.

Computer software

• Cyberduck, an FTP program released under the GPL.
• Duck typing, in programming, a form of dynamic typing where a variable's value itself determines what it can do
• DUCK, the FourCC for The Duck Corporation's TrueMotion S video codec

Materials and garments

• "Duck tape", an alternate pronunciation of "duct tape"
• Cotton duck, a type of textile

People

• Duck (crossword compiler), pseudonym for Don Manley (b. 1945), a British long-serving compiler of crosswords
• Emma Duck (b. 1981), British international track athlete
• King Duck, nickname for Taiwanese gangster, Chen Chi-li (1943-2007)

Sports

• Duck (cricket), a cricketing term denoting a batsman being dismissed with a score of zero
• Anaheim Ducks, a hockey team
• Long Island Ducks, a minor league baseball team
• Oregon Ducks, the sports teams of the University of Oregon

Popular culture

• Antis (duck in Lithuanian) - an influential Lithuanian postmodernist rock band in existence in the late eighties
• Daffy Duck, a fictional character of Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Scrooge McDuck, fictional characters of Walt Disney
• Duck and cover, a suggested method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear weapon
• Duck and cover (disambiguation), other uses of the phrase
• Duck (film), a 2005 film by Nic Batterau
• Duck Records, a record label
• Duck the Great Western Engine, nickname for Montague, a steam locomotive from The Railway Series by W.V. Awdry
• Duck! / Aren't You Chupacabra To See Me?, an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, a 2006 film about a fictional school shooting
• Ducky Mallard, a character on American TV show NCIS
• Howard the Duck, a comic book and film character
• Ducky (The Land Before Time), a character in the series of films
• A fictional race of sentient creatures, similar in appearance to actual ducks, in the Glorantha setting for the fantasy role-playing games RuneQuest and Suikoden
• Duck (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
• Duckman, an animated sitcom developed by Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn
• Duck and Birdie, the English name for the Dutch comic strip Fokke & Sukke
• Duckie (group), performing arts group
• Duckie Dale, fictional character played by actor Jon Cryer in the movie Pretty in Pink

Miscellaneous

• A hypocorism or affectionate phrase, often used in part of the East Midlands and South Yorkshire in England, originally derived from the title Duke
• "To duck" is a verb meaning "to bend down or stoop down, as if to go under something" , or to avoid someone as to "duck someone's phone calls" or to "duck a meeting".
• Ducks (hiking), A pile of three stacked rocks used to mark an off-trail hiking route
• The Aflac duck, a US company logo
• Duck, North Carolina, a small town on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
• Duck River, the longest river within the state of Tennessee in the United States
• Duck test, humorous term for a form of inductive reasoning
• Duck, duck, goose, a children's game
• A very short cave sump
• Any building in the shape of something associated with it; or an irrelevant design element in a chart; see Big Duck
• A lead weight used by draftsmen to hold splines in place, named because of their resemblance to ducks; see Flat spline
• XGAM-71 Buck Duck, a decoy missile developed in the 1950s
• "Ducks" was the original name of the Monte Creek area near Kamloops, named after the first homesteader there, Jacob Ducks
• Anglicisation of the French loanword deuce, the 2 in a standard deck of cards

See also

• Rubber duck (disambiguation)
• Ducking stool

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