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ducks

British  
/ dʌks /

plural noun

  1. clothing made of duck, esp white trousers for sports

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On the Chesapeake Bay, market hunters favored punt guns—cannons weighing up to 200 pounds, with barrels made from boiler pipe—that could bring down 100 ducks with one shot.

From The Wall Street Journal

We’d often visit our family farm, where my extended family raised pigs, ducks, chickens and whatnot.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s also been found in wild birds and killed millions of commercial chickens, geese and ducks.

From Los Angeles Times

"I hate any kind of pollution to be honest, there's blue and green algae here, there's bird flu, ducks and swans dying."

From BBC

Guests enter past rows of hanging Peking ducks and through velvet ropes into a dark, buzzing dining room.

From Salon