milkshake duck

plural milkshake ducks · alternative Milkshake Duck

1. InternetSomeone or something, especially on social media, that is widely considered to be endearing, but is then discovered to be or have done something deeply flawed or distasteful.

present singular third person milkshake ducks · participle present milkshake ducking · participle past milkshake ducked · past milkshake ducked · alternative Milkshake Duck

1. InternetTo reveal (someone or something recently beloved by the internet) to be a milkshake duck (noun).

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:milkshake duck.

plural Milkshake Ducks

1. Alternative letter-case form of milkshake duck.

   And the retweets continued. She became the latest example of what she learned the internet called a Milkshake Duck—a person lauded online for some admirable characteristic who turns out to be horrible in real life.

   [2025, Alafair Burke, The Note, Vintage, →ISBN, page 113

present singular third person Milkshake Ducks · participle present Milkshake Ducking · participle past Milkshake Ducked · past Milkshake Ducked

1. Alternative letter-case form of milkshake duck.

   By the time he had been Milkshake Ducked he had become polarizing in the way that everything popular on social media eventually must.

   2026 July 1, Will Oremus, “So Long to America’s Favorite Everymensch”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026