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'Duck' may refer to:

Contents

Birds

Vehicles

Computer software

Materials and garments

Entertainment and fiction and media

Symbols

Miscellaneous

Birds

★ 'Ducks' are a group of water birds.

★ Domestic duck

★ Duck (food), the meat from such birds

★ Wood duck, a perching duck.

Vehicles

★ Colloquial name for a Citroën 2CV.

★ DUKW, commonly pronounced ''duck'', an amphibious vehicle.

★ J2F Duck amphibious aircraft from Grumman

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.

Materials and garments

★ "Duck tape" is an old word for duct tape.

★ Cotton duck, a type of textile

★ A pair of trousers in the 1920's / 1930's. Frequently referred to by the author W. Somerset Maugham.

Entertainment and fiction and media

★ DUCK, the FourCC for ''The Duck Corporation's'' TrueMotion S video codec

★ Daffy Duck, a fictional character of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

★ Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Scrooge McDuck, fictional characters of Walt Disney.

★ Duck (film), a 2005 award-winning film by Nic Batterau

★ Duck Records, a record label

★ Duck the Great Western Engine, nickname for ''Montague'', a steam locomotive from The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry.

★ Duck!, an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

★ Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, a 2006 film about a fictional school shooting.

★ Dr. Donald Mallard, a character on NCIS. Mostly due to his name, Dr. Donald Mallard, M.D., M.E., is affectionately called "Ducky" by his co-workers and friends. He is rarely called by his first name.

★ Howard the Duck, a comic book and film character.

★ Ducky, a character in the Land Before Time series of films.

★ A fictional race of sentient creatures, similar in appearance to actual ducks, in the Glorantha setting for the fantasy role-playing game RuneQuest and in at least one Japanese Console RPG.

Symbols

★ The AFLAC duck, a US company logo.

★ A sports team mascot. The three most notable Ducks are the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, minor league baseball's Long Island Ducks and the University of Oregon Ducks.

Miscellaneous

★ An affectionate phrase, often used in Stoke-on-Trent and the East Midlands (particularly Leicestershire) in England

★ "To duck" is a verb meaning "to bend down or stoop down, as if to go under something".

★ Duck (cricket), a cricketing term denoting a batsman being dismissed with a score of zero.

★ Duck, North Carolina, a small town on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

★ Duck Duck Goose, a children's game.

★ Emma Duck, a British athlete.

★ A cave passage nearly filled with water - also in some countries a very short cave sump.

★ A pile of three stacked rocks used to mark an off-trail hiking route.

★ Antis (''duck'' in Lithuanian) - an influential Lithuanian postmodernist rock band that existed in the late eighties.

★ Any building in the shape of something associated with it; or an irrelevant design element in a chart. See Big duck

★ See Rubber duck (disambiguation)

★ A lead weight used by draftsmen to hold splines in place, named because of their resemblance to ducks. See Spline (device).