ducks
/dʌks/
ducks is the plural of duck.
ducks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of duck.
Meaning of duck
Noun (1)
duck (plural ducks)
- A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
Noun (2)
duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks or duck)
- Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and shorter-necked.
- Matsumoto Castle exhibits the architecture of both war and peace, from its steep wooden stairs, hidden inner levels and archer’s perches to the moon-viewing room added in 1630, which also offers a vantage point for viewing the brocaded carps and ducks residing in the castle moat.2023 May 18, David McElhenney, “13 of Japan’s best castles”, in CNN
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- Synonyms:
- duckess
- The flesh of a duck used as food.
- A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- A playing card with the rank of two.
Noun (1)
ducks
- A pair of twos.
Noun (2)
ducks
Noun (3)
ducks
- The light trousers worn by sailors in hot climates.
- His spotless white ducks set tight about the hips, and hang loosely at the bottom, just allowing the tips of a pair of patent-leather pumps to peep out from beneath their ample breadth.1856, Charles Nordhoff, Nine Years a Sailor
Synonyms of ducks
Origin of ducks
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From the shape of the numeral 2, looking like the profile of a duck.
From duck (“darling”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Phrases with ducks
- ducks off
- ducks out
- mud ducks
- odd ducks
- sea ducks
- blue ducks
- dead ducks
- ducks down
- ducks guts
- fool ducks
- lame ducks
- musk ducks
122 more phrasesFewer phrases
- raft ducks
- roan ducks
- surf ducks
- tree ducks
- whew ducks
- wood ducks
- acorn ducks
- Daffy Ducks
- decoy ducks
- divvy ducks
- Jemmy Ducks
- lucky ducks
- Pekin ducks
- queer ducks
- royal ducks
- ruddy ducks
- Bombay ducks
- buffel ducks
- burrow ducks
- diving ducks
- Donald Ducks
- fluffy ducks
- golden ducks
- Laysan ducks
- nigger ducks
- rubber ducks
- spirit ducks
- squawk ducks
- tufted ducks
- velvet ducks
- crested ducks
- diamond ducks
- marbled ducks
- Mexican ducks
- mottled ducks
- Muscovy ducks
- pintail ducks
- savoury ducks
- sitting ducks
- sons of ducks
- steamer ducks
- torrent ducks
- Brahminy ducks
- Burdekin ducks
- Carolina ducks
- dabbling ducks
- domestic ducks
- falcated ducks
- freckled ducks
- Hawaiian ducks
- Labrador ducks
- mandarin ducks
- paradise ducks
- platinum ducks
- ruptured ducks
- Brazilian ducks
- ducks and geese
- harlequin ducks
- milkshake ducks
- whistling ducks
- chance the ducks
- ducks and covers
- ducks and drakes
- Field-lane ducks
- loggerhead ducks
- pink-eared ducks
- two little ducks
- blue-billed ducks
- chanced the ducks
- chances the ducks
- ducks on the pond
- ferruginous ducks
- Gressingham ducks
- long-tailed ducks
- ring-necked ducks
- black-headed ducks
- chancing the ducks
- fulvous tree ducks
- stiff-tailed ducks
- white-headed ducks
- architectural ducks
- box of fluffy ducks
- demon ducks of doom
- line up one's ducks
- yellow-billed ducks
- American black ducks
- lined up one's ducks
- lines up one's ducks
- lining up one's ducks
- fine weather for ducks
- Indian whistling ducks
- lesser whistling ducks
- nice weather for ducks
- plumed whistling ducks
- crutches for lame ducks
- fulvous whistling ducks
- spotted whistling ducks
- unsinkable rubber ducks
- get one's ducks in a row
- got one's ducks in a row
- had one's ducks in a row
- has one's ducks in a row
- hunt where the ducks are
- lovely weather for ducks
- put one's ducks in a row
- gets one's ducks in a row
- have one's ducks in a row
- hunt where the ducks were
- hunts where the ducks are
- puts one's ducks in a row
- wandering whistling ducks
- hunted where the ducks are
- hunts where the ducks were
- gotten one's ducks in a row
- having one's ducks in a row
- hunted where the ducks were
- hunting where the ducks are
- getting one's ducks in a row
- hunting where the ducks were
- putting one's ducks in a row
- go hunting where the ducks are
- don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
Words that rhyme with ducks
Questions about ducks
- What does ducks mean?
- Ducks means a pair of twos.
- What is ducks the plural of?
- Ducks is the plural of duck.
- What part of speech is ducks?
- Ducks is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ducks?
- Ducks is pronounced /dʌks/.
Words near ducks in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ducks (page history and authors); duck (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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