Duck (disambiguation)

Duck may refer to:

• "To duck" is a verb meaning "to bend down or stoop down, as if to go under something", or to avoid someone as to "duck someone's phone calls" or to "duck a meeting".

Animals

• Duck, a type of water bird
  • Domestic duck
  • Duck (food), the meat from such birds
• Geoduck, a bivalve mollusk, also called the Gooey Duck, unrelated to the bird

Transportation

• Colloquial name for a Citroën 2CV
• Nickname for a Ducati motorcycle
• DUKW, commonly pronounced duck, a type of amphibious vehicle
• J2F Duck amphibious aircraft from Grumman
• American Canyon Transit is also known as The Duck

Computer software

• Cyberduck, an FTP program released under the GPL
• Duck typing, in programming, a form of dynamic typing where a variable's value itself determines what it can do
• DUCK, the FourCC for The Duck Corporation's TrueMotion S video codec

Materials and garments

• Cotton duck, a fine strong cloth made from untwilled linen, later cotton
• Duck tape, adhesive tape originally made from duck fabric, often known by the malapropism "duct tape"

People

• Donald Duck Dunn (b. 1941), bass player for Booker T. & the M.G.'s and The Blues Brothers
• Duck (crossword compiler), pseudonym for Don Manley (b. 1945), a British long-serving compiler of crosswords
• Emma Duck (b. 1981), British international track athlete
• King Duck, nickname for Taiwanese gangster, Chen Chi-li (1943–2007)
• Joe Medwick (1911–1975; nicknamed "Ducky"), Hall of Fame baseball player

Sports and games

• Duck (bridge), in the card game of contract bridge, duck means to play low to a trick, thus losing it intentionally.
• Duck (cricket), a cricketing term denoting a batsman being dismissed with a score of zero
• Anaheim Ducks, a hockey team
• Long Island Ducks, a minor league baseball team
• Oregon Ducks, the sports teams of the University of Oregon

Popular culture

• Duck Records, a record label
• Duck the Great Western Engine, nickname for Montague, a steam locomotive from The Railway Series by W.V. Awdry
• Duck and Birdie, the English name for the Dutch comic strip Fokke & Sukke
• Duckie (group), performing arts group
• Antis (duck in Lithuanian), a late-1980s Lithuanian postmodernist rock band

Fictional characters

• Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Scrooge McDuck, et al.: fictional characters of Walt Disney
• Daffy Duck, a fictional character of Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Duck the Great Western Engine from The Railway Series (the Thomas the Tank Engine books)
• Plucky Duck, a fictional character of Tiny Toon Adventures
• Howard the Duck, a comic book and film character
• Sitting Ducks, a lithograph, children's book and cartoon series
• Aflac duck, a US company logo
• Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, a character on the American TV show NCIS—see List of NCIS characters#Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
• Ducks, a fictional race of sentient creatures similar in appearance to actual ducks in the Glorantha setting for the fantasy role-playing games RuneQuest and Suikoden
• Ducky (The Land Before Time), a character in the series of films
• Duck (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
• Duckie Dale, fictional character portrayed by actor Jon Cryer in the film Pretty in Pink
• Donald "Duck" Matthews, a character in the 1991 movie, The Five Heartbeats portrayed by Robert Townsend and stars as himself.

Film and television

• Duck (film), a 2005 film by Nic Batterau
• Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, a 2006 film about a fictional school shooting
• "Duck! / Aren't You Chupacabra To See Me?", an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Duckman, an animated sitcom developed by Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn
• Duck, a television ident for BBC Two first aired in 1997 (see BBC Two '1991-2001' idents)

Places

• Duck, North Carolina, a small town on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
• Duck River, the longest river within the state of Tennessee in the United States
• Ducks, original name of the Monte Creek area near Kamloops, named after the first homesteader there, Jacob Ducks

Other

• A hypocorism or affectionate phrase, often used in parts of the Midlands and South Yorkshire in England, originally derived from the title Duke
• Ducks (hiking), A pile of three stacked rocks used to mark an off-trail hiking route
• Duck test, humorous term for a form of inductive reasoning
• Duck, duck, goose, a children's game
• A very short cave sump
• Any building in the shape of something associated with it; or an irrelevant design element in a chart; see Big Duck
• A lead weight used by draftsmen to hold splines in place, named because of their resemblance to ducks; see Flat spline
• XGAM-71 Buck Duck, a decoy missile developed in the 1950s
• Anglicization of the French loanword deuce, the 2 in a standard deck of cards

See also

• All pages beginning with "duck"
• All pages with titles containing "duck"
• Crouch (disambiguation)
• Cucking stool (ducking stool)
• Duck and cover (disambiguation)
• Duck foot (disambiguation)
• Duct (disambiguation)
• Rubber duck (disambiguation)
• Duckie (disambiguation)
• Ducky (disambiguation)

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