duck out

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice…

   To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • Cathy Song needed to duck out from work at 3pm to ferry her child from pre-school to a neighbour's.
2. 2

   To depart quickly or exit abruptly by way of, especially in a manner which does not…

   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.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion.

   • 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.
   • Congress even now is considering enlarging that deficit by cutting those taxes. . . . It means ducking out of the basic Social Security problem.
   • [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.
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   1. 4

      To avoid a debt

      To avoid a debt; to skip out on a bill.

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