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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
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to move suddenly aside or to and fro<duck behind a pillar before they see us>— see dodge 1
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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
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