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milkshake duck

milkshake duck noun: someone or something, especially on social media, that is widely considered to be endearing, but is then discovered to be or have done something deeply flawed or distasteful.

Noun (1)

milkshake duck (plural milkshake ducks)

  1. (Internet) Someone or something, especially on social media, that is widely considered to be endearing, but is then discovered to be or have done something deeply flawed or distasteful.

Verb (1)

milkshake duck (third-person singular simple present milkshake ducks, present participle milkshake ducking, simple past and past participle milkshake ducked)

  1. (Internet) To reveal (someone or something recently beloved by the internet) to be a milkshake duck (noun).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:milkshake duck.

Noun (2) capitalized: Milkshake Duck

Milkshake Duck (plural Milkshake Ducks)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of milkshake duck.
    • And the retweets continued. She became the latest example of what she learned the internet called a Milkshake Duck—a person lauded online for some admirable characteristic who turns out to be horrible in real life.[2025, Alafair Burke, The Note, Vintage, →ISBN, page 113

Verb (2) capitalized: Milkshake Duck

Milkshake Duck (third-person singular simple present Milkshake Ducks, present participle Milkshake Ducking, simple past and past participle Milkshake Ducked)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of milkshake duck.
    • By the time he had been Milkshake Ducked he had become polarizing in the way that everything popular on social media eventually must.2026 July 1, Will Oremus, “So Long to America’s Favorite Everymensch”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Forms of milkshake duck

Noun
pluralmilkshake ducks
alternative formMilkshake Duck
pluralMilkshake Ducks
Verb
third-person singular presentmilkshake ducks
present participlemilkshake ducking
past participlemilkshake ducked
pastmilkshake ducked
third-person singular presentMilkshake Ducks
present participleMilkshake Ducking
past participleMilkshake Ducked
pastMilkshake Ducked

Origin of milkshake duck

From a 2016 comedic Twitter post partly inspired by the Chewbacca Mask Lady.

Questions about milkshake duck

What does milkshake duck mean?
Milkshake duck means someone or something, especially on social media, that is widely considered to be endearing, but is then discovered to be or have done something deeply flawed or distasteful.
What part of speech is milkshake duck?
Milkshake duck can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of milkshake duck?
The plural of milkshake duck is milkshake ducks.

Words near milkshake duck in the dictionary

  1. milkpersons
  2. milkpox
  3. milks
  4. milks the clock
  5. milkshake
  6. milkshake duck
  7. milkshake ducked
  8. milkshake ducking
  9. milkshake ducks
  10. milkshake tax
  11. milkshaked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: milkshake duck (page history and authors); Milkshake 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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