(cricket) To score one's first run in an innings.
(cricket) To score one's first run in an innings.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(slang) For a prostitute to pick up her first client of the day.
(baseball, dated, slang, 1800s) To throw a curve ball.
(transitive, slang, AAVE) To humiliate (someone); to scold or demean (someone) in public.
A duck shoot is slang for something ridiculously easy — a total cinch, a piece of cake. The metaphor comes from carnival-style shooting galleries where you shoot at slow-moving mechanical ducks and can barely miss. When someone calls a task a duck shoot, they mean it requires zero effort or skill. It has the same flavor as 'shooting fish in a barrel' but sounds a bit more casual and British. Use it to describe a game, a test, a competition, or any situation where victory was basically guaranteed from the start.
(idiomatic, British, by extension) To do something for the first time.
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