dead duck
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.17 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A project that is doomed to failure from the start.
Example Sentences
- "She's a dead duck if she starts flirting with my boyfriend!"
- "The government decision meant that the proposed boycott of South African goods was a dead duck."
- "The "most important suburban line—to Clifton Down, Avonmouth Dock and Severn Beach" has, I fear, been a dead duck for years. (It still exists in 2021)"
- "They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”"