Duck is a name applied to several bird species of the family Anatidae.
Duck, The Duck or ducks may also refer to:
Places
People
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
Music
Film and television
Brands and enterprises
- Duck Brand, a duct tape brand now used on a variety of products
- Duck Donuts, a doughnut shop
- On2 Technologies, formerly The Duck Corporation, which designed video codec technology
- Toilet Duck, a brand of toilet cleaner, known simply as Duck in the British Isles
Sports and games
Transportation
- American Canyon Transit, also known as "The Duck"
- Citroën 2CV, a car model nicknamed "The Duck"
- Ducati, a motorcycle company, sometimes shortened to "Duc" or "Duck"
- Duck (ship), one of several vessels by that name
- DUKW, commonly pronounced "duck", an amphibious six-wheel drive vehicle used by the US military during World War II
- Goodyear Duck, a 1940s amphibian aircraft
- Grumman JF Duck, a 1930s biplane amphibious aircraft built for the US Navy
- Grumman J2F Duck, amphibious aircraft derived from the JF Duck
Other uses
- Duck, a lead weight used by draftsmen to hold splines in place
- Duck, a hypocorism or affectionate phrase, often used in parts of the Midlands and South Yorkshire in England, originally derived from the title Duke
- Duck, a very short cave sump
- Duck, in architecture, any building in the shape of something associated with it; named for the Big Duck
- Cotton duck, a fine strong cloth made from untwilled linen, later cotton
- Duck as food, the meat of the bird
- Duck Samford Stadium, a football stadium in Auburn, Alabama, nicknamed "The Duck"
- "Duck", the victim of Ducking (slang), a technique for manipulating prison staff
- Ducks (hiking) or cairn, a pile of three or more stones used to mark an off-trail hiking route
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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