Duck (disambiguation)

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Ducks are a group of water birds.
Duck may also refer to:

• an affectionate term, often used in the East Midlands, UK (particularly Leicestershire)
• Duck (food), the meat from such birds
• "To duck" is a verb meaning "to bend down or stoop down, as if to go under something".
• Duck (cricket), a cricketing term denoting a batsman being dismissed with a score of zero.
• The AFLAC duck, a US company logo.
• Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Scrooge McDuck, fictional characters of Walt Disney.
• Daffy Duck, a fictional character of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
• Duck, North Carolina, a small town on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
• Duck Duck Goose, a children's game.
• A cave passage nearly filled with water - also in some countries a very short cave sump.
• Colloquial name for a Citroën 2CV.
• DUKW, commonly pronounced duck, an amphibious vehicle.
• Duck the Great Western Engine, nickname for Montague, a steam locomotive from The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry.
• A sports team mascot. The three most notable Ducks are the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, minor league baseball's Long Island Ducks and the University of Oregon Ducks.
• A pile of three stacked rocks used to mark an off-trail hiking route.
• A pair of trousers in the 1920's / 1930's. Frequently referred to by the author W. Somerset Maugham.
• Antis (duck in Lithuanian) - an influential Lithuanian postmodernist rock band that existed in the late eighties.
• Cotton duck, a type of textile
• wood duck, a perching duck.
• "Duck tape" is an old word for duct tape.
• Any building in the shape of something associated with it; or an irrelevant design element in a chart. See Big duck
• Rubber duck
• A fictional race of sentient creatures, similar in appearance to actual ducks, in the Glorantha setting for the fantasy role-playing game RuneQuest as well as at least one Japanese Console RPG.
• 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.
• Howard the Duck, a comic book and film character.
• Duck!, an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
• DUCK, the FourCC for The Duck Corporation's TrueMotion S video codec
• Duck Records, a record label
• Anaheim Ducks A hockey team that plays in the NHL
• Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, a 2006 film about a fictional school shooting.