Duck (disambiguation)

Duck may refer to:

"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".

Animals

Duck, a type of water bird
- Domestic duck
- Duck (food), the meat from such birds
Geoduck, a bivalve mollusk, also called the Gooey Duck, unrelated to the bird

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

Cotton duck, a fine strong cloth made from untwilled linen, later cotton
Duck tape, adhesive tape originally made from duck fabric, often known by the malapropism "duct tape"

Donald Duck Dunn (b. 1941), bass player for Booker T. & the M.G.'s and The Blues Brothers
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)
Joe Medwick (1911–1975; nicknamed "Ducky"), Hall of Fame baseball player

Duck (bridge), in the card game of contract bridge, duck means to play low to a trick, thus losing it intentionally.
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

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 and Birdie, the English name for the Dutch comic strip Fokke & Sukke
Duckie (group), performing arts group
Antis (duck in Lithuanian), a late-1980s Lithuanian postmodernist rock band

Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Scrooge McDuck, et al.: fictional characters of Walt Disney
Daffy Duck, a fictional character of Warner Bros. Entertainment
Duck the Great Western Engine from The Railway Series (the Thomas the Tank Engine books)
Plucky Duck, a fictional character of Tiny Toon Adventures
Howard the Duck, a comic book and film character
Sitting Ducks, a lithograph, children's book and cartoon series
Aflac duck, a US company logo
Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, a character on the American TV show NCIS—see List of NCIS characters#Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
Ducks, 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
Ducky (The Land Before Time), a character in the series of films
Duck (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Duckie Dale, fictional character portrayed by actor Jon Cryer in the film Pretty in Pink
Donald "Duck" Matthews, a character in the 1991 movie, The Five Heartbeats portrayed by Robert Townsend and stars as himself.

Duck (film), a 2005 film by Nic Batterau
Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, a 2006 film about a fictional school shooting
"Duck! / Aren't You Chupacabra To See Me?", an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Duckman, an animated sitcom developed by Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn
Duck, a television ident for BBC Two first aired in 1997 (see BBC Two '1991-2001' idents)

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
Ducks, original name of the Monte Creek area near Kamloops, named after the first homesteader there, Jacob Ducks

A hypocorism or affectionate phrase, often used in parts of the Midlands and South Yorkshire in England, originally derived from the title Duke
Ducks (hiking), A pile of three stacked rocks used to mark an off-trail hiking route
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
Anglicization of the French loanword deuce, the 2 in a standard deck of cards