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I verb1) (to push briefly under water: They splashed about, ducking each other in the pool.) potopiti (se)2) (to lower the head suddenly as if to avoid a blow: He ducked as the ball came at him.) skloniti se, skriti seII plurals - ducks, duck; noun1) (a kind of wild or domesticated water-bird with short legs and a broad flat beak.) raca2) (a female duck. See also drake.) raca3) (in cricket, a score of nil by a batsman: He was out for a duck.) ničla (pri kriketu)•- duckling* * *I [dʌk]nounzoology raca; amfibijsko vozilo; colloquially srček, ljubček; očarljiva oseba; American military našiv; bankrotnik, dolžnik; invalid; colloquially nič, ničla (kriket)a lame duck — dolžnik; invalidlike a duck in a thunderstorm — potrt, otožen; zgubljento play ( —ali make) ducks and drakes — metati žabice (na vodni gladini); zapravljatilike water off a duck's back — brez učinka, kot bob ob stenocolloquially a duck of a — očarljiv(to take to s.th.) like a duck to water — (lotiti se česa) z veseljem, brez obotavljanjaduck's egg sport nič, nobena točka (kriket)II [dʌk]intransitive verb & transitive verbpočeniti, počepati; hitro glavo skloniti, ukloniti se; potapljati, potopiti (se); race loviticolloquially prikloniti se; slang to duck out — popihati joIII [dʌk]nounnagla sklonitev, počep, potopitevIV [dʌk]nounvrsta surovega platna; plural hlače iz takega blagaV [dʌk]nouncolloquially izkrcevalni čoln za amfibije
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