"duck out" meaning in All languages combined

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      "word": "take a French leave"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Possibly an allusion to the abrupt manner in which a swimming duck can dive and disappear beneath the surface of the water.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ducks out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ducking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ducked out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ducked out",
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        "past"
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "_dis": "44 43 12",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, Ring Lardner, Sr., chapter 4, in The Big Town",
          "text": "Wile they was still talking along these lines, the orchestra begin to drool a Perfect Day, so I ducked out on the porch for air.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 June 8, Richard Berke, “Sizzling 40-Year Streak Of Never Missing a Vote”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-11-26",
          "text": "Fearful of missing a roll-call, Representative Charles E. Bennett has ducked out of funerals, bolted from hospital beds and defied snowstorms to get to the House chamber.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 August 29, Leonie Lamont, “Working mothers triumph in two rulings”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 2010-11-26",
          "text": "Cathy Song needed to duck out from work at 3pm to ferry her child from pre-school to a neighbour's.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded."
      ],
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        [
          "depart",
          "depart"
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        [
          "quick",
          "quick"
        ],
        [
          "exit",
          "exit"
        ],
        [
          "abrupt",
          "abrupt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 39 21",
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          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 June 15, “Copious Coping: How Other Mayors Fare”, in Time",
          "text": "The four-term Democrat, known to critics as \"King Kevin\" and \"Mayor De Luxe,\" has been threatened with recall petitions and recently ducked out the back door of a restaurant to avoid picketers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart quickly or exit abruptly by way of, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded."
      ],
      "id": "en-duck_out-en-verb-oRwGgmsM",
      "links": [
        [
          "by way of",
          "by way of"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To depart quickly or exit abruptly by way of, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "_dis": "44 43 12",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 39 21",
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          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Jack London, “A Piece of Steak”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories",
          "text": "In the one moment he saw his opponent ducking out of his field of vision and the background of white, watching faces; in the next moment he again saw his opponent and the background of faces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, \"Another free lunch\" (editorial), St. Petersburg Times (USA), 20 March, p. 10A (retrieved 26 Nov 2010)",
          "text": "Congress even now is considering enlarging that deficit by cutting those taxes. . . . It means ducking out of the basic Social Security problem."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 April 1, Ian Taylor, “Obstacles to Change in Africa”, in Foreign Policy in Focus, retrieved 2010-11-26",
          "text": "[A]ny project for renewal is subject to a wide variety of destabilizing forces, not least when elites seek to duck out from the commitments they themselves have made.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion."
      ],
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        [
          "of",
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        ],
        [
          "from",
          "from#English"
        ],
        [
          "avoidance",
          "avoidance"
        ],
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "evasion",
          "evasion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive, followed by of or from) To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by of or from"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 93",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "izbegatʹ",
          "sense": "to move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion",
          "word": "избегать"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "51 46 3",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uliznutʹ",
      "sense": "(intransitive) to depart quickly or exit abruptly",
      "word": "улизнуть"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 46 3",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(intransitive) to depart quickly or exit abruptly",
      "word": "escaquearse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "duck out"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
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    {
      "word": "take a French leave"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Possibly an allusion to the abrupt manner in which a swimming duck can dive and disappear beneath the surface of the water.",
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    {
      "form": "ducks out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ducking out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ducked out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ducked out",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1921, Ring Lardner, Sr., chapter 4, in The Big Town",
          "text": "Wile they was still talking along these lines, the orchestra begin to drool a Perfect Day, so I ducked out on the porch for air.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 June 8, Richard Berke, “Sizzling 40-Year Streak Of Never Missing a Vote”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-11-26",
          "text": "Fearful of missing a roll-call, Representative Charles E. Bennett has ducked out of funerals, bolted from hospital beds and defied snowstorms to get to the House chamber.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 August 29, Leonie Lamont, “Working mothers triumph in two rulings”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 2010-11-26",
          "text": "Cathy Song needed to duck out from work at 3pm to ferry her child from pre-school to a neighbour's.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded."
      ],
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          "depart"
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        [
          "abrupt",
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        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "ref": "1981 June 15, “Copious Coping: How Other Mayors Fare”, in Time",
          "text": "The four-term Democrat, known to critics as \"King Kevin\" and \"Mayor De Luxe,\" has been threatened with recall petitions and recently ducked out the back door of a restaurant to avoid picketers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart quickly or exit abruptly by way of, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "by way of",
          "by way of"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To depart quickly or exit abruptly by way of, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        {
          "ref": "1911, Jack London, “A Piece of Steak”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories",
          "text": "In the one moment he saw his opponent ducking out of his field of vision and the background of white, watching faces; in the next moment he again saw his opponent and the background of faces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, \"Another free lunch\" (editorial), St. Petersburg Times (USA), 20 March, p. 10A (retrieved 26 Nov 2010)",
          "text": "Congress even now is considering enlarging that deficit by cutting those taxes. . . . It means ducking out of the basic Social Security problem."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 April 1, Ian Taylor, “Obstacles to Change in Africa”, in Foreign Policy in Focus, retrieved 2010-11-26",
          "text": "[A]ny project for renewal is subject to a wide variety of destabilizing forces, not least when elites seek to duck out from the commitments they themselves have made.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "of",
          "of#English"
        ],
        [
          "from",
          "from#English"
        ],
        [
          "avoidance",
          "avoidance"
        ],
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "evasion",
          "evasion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive, followed by of or from) To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by of or from"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uliznutʹ",
      "sense": "(intransitive) to depart quickly or exit abruptly",
      "word": "улизнуть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(intransitive) to depart quickly or exit abruptly",
      "word": "escaquearse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izbegatʹ",
      "sense": "to move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion",
      "word": "избегать"
    }
  ],
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}