Meanings
nounducktail (plural ducktails)
plural ducktails
- A hairstyle in which the hair is swept back into an upturned point at the back.
Harold’s heavy hand with the scissors might explain his youngest son George’s taste in hairstyle: a vertiginous pompadour buttressed by head wings and a ducktail.
2020, The Editors of PEOPLE, “George”, in PEOPLE Celebrating Beatlemania, page 31Synonyms: duck's arse, DA
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA hairstyle in which the hair is swept back into an upturned point at the back.
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Dutch vetkuif
- vetkuifhairstyle
French banane
- bananehairstyle
German Schmalzlocke
- Schmalzlockehairstyle
Italian pettinatura Pompadour
- pettinatura Pompadourhairstyle
Portuguese corte Ducktail
- corte Ducktailhairstyle
Romanian fund de rață
- fund de rațăhairstyle
Spanish cola de pato
- cola de patohairstyle
Swedish ankstjärtsfrisyr
- ankstjärtsfrisyrhairstyle
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ducktail. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ducktail
MLA
“ducktail.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ducktail. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ducktail,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ducktail.
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