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duck shoot

duck shoot noun: something very easy; a piece of cake.

Noun

duck shoot (plural duck shoots)

  1. (slang) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
    • I was determined that the guilty party would not be gay. I am absolutely adamant about this for future books too. Gay people have been shit on by writers of imaginative literature too long — easy targets — and I won't participate in the duck-shoot.1976 August 14, John Mitzel, Richard Hall, “The Whodunit Writer: Why He Dun It”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 7
    • It was a duck shoot because all you had to do was buy a site with money from the bank, and sell it when the market had risen. There was never an 'if' in this statement because we all expected the market to rise.2011, Simon Kelly, Breakfast with Anglo

Forms of duck shoot

pluralduck shoots

Questions about duck shoot

What does duck shoot mean?
Duck shoot means something very easy; a piece of cake.
What part of speech is duck shoot?
Duck shoot is a noun.
What is the plural of duck shoot?
The plural of duck shoot is duck shoots.

Words near duck shoot in the dictionary

  1. duck presses
  2. duck race
  3. duck races
  4. duck sauce
  5. duck sauces
  6. duck shoot
  7. duck shoots
  8. duck snort
  9. duck snorts
  10. duck soup
  11. duck soups

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