(historical) A chair used to punish women, especially scolds, by ducking them in water.

(idiomatic) One who is in serious danger or trouble. / (idiomatic) A project that is doomed to failure from the start.

(surfing) To push one's surfboard (usually a shortboard) underwater nose-first, to get the surfer and board under a wave that has broken or is just about to break.

(surfing) The action of duck diving (see verb).

Alternative form of lame duck

(idiomatic) An obvious or unconcealed target.

(Australia, countable) The bird Tadorna radjah, a protected species within Australia.

plural of dead duck

plural of duck dive

(slang, chiefly Britain, indelicate, sometimes insulting, vulgar) Having or pertaining to broad hips and large, bulging buttocks.