duck shoot

noun

Something very easy; a piece of cake.

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Meanings

nounduck shoot (plural duck shoots)

plural duck shoots

  1. slangSomething very easy; a piece of cake.

    It was a duck shoot because all you had to do was buy a site with money from the bank, and sell it when the market had risen. There was never an 'if' in this statement because we all expected the market to rise.

    2011, Simon Kelly, Breakfast with Anglo
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    I was determined that the guilty party would not be gay. I am absolutely adamant about this for future books too. Gay people have been shit on by writers of imaginative literature too long — easy targets — and I won't participate in the duck-shoot.

    1976 August 14, John Mitzel, Richard Hall, “The Whodunit Writer: Why He Dun It”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 7
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Chicago

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