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duked out

duked out is the simple past and past participle of duke out.

Meaning of duke out

Verb

duke out (third-person singular simple present dukes out, present participle duking out, simple past and past participle duked out)

  1. (slang, transitive) To fight, especially with fists; to knock out (someone).
    • Both perfect homes are destroyed—and yet the two men remain effectively passive, locked in hang-ups while assorted protégés and allies do all the duking out and legwork.2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club

Questions about duked out

What is duked out the simple past and past participle of?
Duked out is the simple past and past participle of duke out.

Words near duked out in the dictionary

  1. duke out
  2. duke up
  3. duked
  4. duked in
  5. duked it out
  6. duked out
  7. duked up
  8. dukedom
  9. dukedoms
  10. dukeite
  11. dukeling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: duked out (page history and authors); duke out (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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