Definitions

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  • verb intransitive To jump on one leg while moving the other back and forth, a motion sometimes employed by guitar players in popular music.

Etymologies

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duck +‎ walk, from its resemblance to the awkward waddle of a duck.

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Examples

  • The height change means that while you went through it with a slight stoop when you were young, you'll be going through in a duckwalk as a grownup, and considering that you do the equivalent of a couple of blocks underground your legs will be wobbly as hell by the end of it.

    back from radio silence hradzka 2010

  • The height change means that while you went through it with a slight stoop when you were young, you'll be going through in a duckwalk as a grownup, and considering that you do the equivalent of a couple of blocks underground your legs will be wobbly as hell by the end of it.

    back from radio silence hradzka 2010

  • Mrs. Angus pointed out his duckwalk to me right away.

    If it walks like a duck.... 2008

  • Mrs. Angus pointed out his duckwalk to me right away.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Along with that first letter, I attached a workout regimen I wanted my players to follow for the rest of the summer, including: 1. Twenty-five side straddle hops 2. Fifty toe touches; twenty-five with the right hand to left toe and twenty-five with the left hand to right toe 3. Thirty push-ups 4. Fifty sit-ups 5. Forty-yard duckwalk 6. Forty-yard frog hop

    Called to Coach Bobby Bowden 2010

  • After a year of harvest mornings, I could hunker down on my haunches and duckwalk along a row, my sharp knife flashing.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • There was one 50-foot passage where I had to duckwalk along, getting jammed in place every so often by my camera case, which kept wedging itself between my body and the wall— it seemed a lot longer than 50 feet, and I emerged breathless and sweating.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • There was one 50-foot passage where I had to duckwalk along, getting jammed in place every so often by my camera case, which kept wedging itself between my body and the wall— it seemed a lot longer than 50 feet, and I emerged breathless and sweating.

    Log of the Eclipse (9) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Oh sure ... every now and then throw in a Chuck Berry duckwalk while you grin like an idiot.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2005

  • Seconds after the boy began to duckwalk a blast of urine-colored light ripped through the opening.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

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