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ducked and covered

ducked and covered is the simple past and past participle of duck and cover.

Meaning of duck and cover

Verb

duck and cover (third-person singular simple present ducks and covers, present participle ducking and covering, simple past and past participle ducked and covered)

  1. (intransitive) To duck under a surface and cover one's face with one's hands, as a means to protect oneself from flying debris etc.
    • It's Christmas at ground zero / Just seconds left to go / I'll duck and cover / With my Yuletide lover / Underneath the mistletoe1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!

Questions about ducked and covered

What is ducked and covered the simple past and past participle of?
Ducked and covered is the simple past and past participle of duck and cover.

Words near ducked and covered in the dictionary

  1. DuckDuckGoed
  2. DuckDuckGoing
  3. DuckDuckGos
  4. ducke
  5. ducked
  6. ducked and covered
  7. ducked down
  8. ducked off
  9. ducked out
  10. ducked-off
  11. Duckenfield

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ducked and covered (page history and authors); duck and cover (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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