Entry Word: duck

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery <donʼt try to duck your commitment to babysit by pretending you have to be someplace else> — see escape 2
2 to move suddenly aside or to and fro <duck behind a pillar before they see us> — see dodge 1
3 to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid <ducked the new camper in the lake as a joke> — see dip 1