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duck-shove

duck-shove is the alternative form of duckshove.

Meaning of duckshove

Verb

duckshove (third-person singular simple present duckshoves, present participle duckshoving, simple past and past participle duckshoved)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) To dodge responsibility; to pass something on to another so that they take the blame.
    • Some of the best duckshoving and waltzing around the issue ever witnessed in this Chamber over the past few years has emanated from the Minister for the Arts.1987, Victoria Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): Legislative Assembly, page 358

Forms of duck-shove

third-person singular presentduck-shoves
present participleduck-shoving
past participleduck-shoved
pastduck-shoved

Questions about duck-shove

What is duck-shove the alternative form of?
Duck-shove is the alternative form of duckshove.

Words near duck-shove in the dictionary

  1. duck-footed
  2. duck-frost
  3. duck-hawk
  4. duck-hawks
  5. duck-legged
  6. duck-shove
  7. duck-shoved
  8. duck-shover
  9. duck-shoves
  10. duck-shoving
  11. duck-squeezer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: duck-shove (page history and authors); duckshove (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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