Duck
Duck verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Shadow
Shadow verb - To go after or on the track of.
Common collocations
| weapon | duck weapon | shadow weapon |
Both words in one sentence
- There's an amusingly cartoony Beat Panel of female-Ranma, pig-Ryoga, and duck-Mousse looking up in shock while a gigantic round shadow is cast over them.
Source: Shadow of Impending Doom -
Then there's infamous Fill-In-The-Blank question featuring shadow puppet of a duck which was intact in Louder!
Source: Video Game / You Don't Know Jack -
If you browse around the game's files, though, there are chances that you will see shadow puppet of a duck written in all caps.
Source: Video Game / You Don't Know Jack
Cite this Source
Shadow and Duck. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/duck/shadow
Duck & Shadow. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/duck/shadow>.
Shadow or Duck. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/duck/shadow.
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