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"(idiomatic, slang) To hide or conceal from others; to render something less conspicuous." Added by the consta-banned racist IP user. Is it real? Equinox ◑ 04:28, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- Given who added it, I'd assume this is some sort of trolling attempt. I've only ever seen duck off as an intentional misspelling of fuck off, in reference to autocorrect's tendency to censor profanity. Binarystep (talk) 06:04, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- This is definitely a real term - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ducked+off (2 defs from 2007)
- I'm still not sure whether it's supposed to be like fuck off or if it's its own thing.
- Ioaxxere (talk) 17:08, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
- The three Twitter cites given are not even all the same part of speech. TheDaveRoss 13:17, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
RFV Failed Ioaxxere (talk) 22:41, 9 February 2023 (UTC)