Duck (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Animals 2 Miscellaneous 3 Transportation 4 Computer software 5 Materials and garments 6 People 7 Sports 8 Popular culture 9 See also

Duck may refer to:

[edit] 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

[edit] Miscellaneous

• An affectionate phrase, often used in Stoke-on-Trent and the East Midlands (particularly Leicestershire) in England
• "To duck" is a verb meaning "to bend down or stoop down, as if to go under something".
• 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 Tenessee in the United States
• 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 Spline (device)
• XGAM-71 Buck Duck, a decoy missile developped in the 1950s
• "Ducks" was the original name of the Monte Creek area near Kamloops, named after the first homesteader there, Jacob Ducks

[edit] Transportation

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Materials and garments

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

[edit] People

• Chen Chi-li, nicknamed "King Duck", a gangster from Taiwan
• Emma Duck, a British athlete.

[edit] Sports

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

[edit] Popular culture

• Antis (duck in Lithuanian) - an influential Lithuanian postmodernist rock band that existed 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 (film), a 2005 award-winning 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, a character in the Land Before Time 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,

[edit] See also

• Rubber duck (disambiguation)