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duking out

duking out is the present participle and gerund 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 duking out

What is duking out the present participle and gerund of?
Duking out is the present participle and gerund of duke out.

Words near duking out in the dictionary

  1. dukicide
  2. Dukinfield
  3. duking
  4. duking in
  5. duking it out
  6. duking out
  7. duking up
  8. dukkah
  9. dukkeripen
  10. dukkha
  11. dukkhas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: duking 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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