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quacks, plural;
  1. (of a duck) Make this sound

  2. Talk loudly and foolishly

Noun
  1. A person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically in medicine
    • - quack cures
  1. an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
  2. quack(a): medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"
  3. utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"
  4. act as a medical quack or a charlatan
  5. the harsh sound of a duck
  6. Quackery is a derogatory term used to describe the promotion of unproven or fraudulent medical practices. ...
  7. Star Reach (also spelled Star*Reach) was an influential, American science fiction and fantasy comics anthology published from 1974 to 1979 by Mike Friedrich. It is unrelated to the early MS-DOS computer game of the same name.
  8. Quack (1969-1995) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who holds the world record for a three-year-old with the fastest mile and a quarter ever run on dirt. Bred and raced by Tom Leclair's Bwamazon Farm, he was sired by T.V. ...
  9. Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies in the Anatidae family; they do not represent a monophyletic group but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks. ...
  10. The sound made by a duck; To make a noise like a duck; falsely presented as having medicinal powers
  11. (Quacks) A roll of 2-2. Also called Double Ducks.
  12. (quacks) a hand which has lots of queens and jacks, or "quacks," is really not as good as its point count would indicate. "I decided not to make a slam try because I had too many quacks. ...
  13. Noun. A doctor, by extension of its older and original usage for an untrained physician.
  14. originated during the Renaissance when quicksilver or mercury was a popular remedy for syphilis. Wandering peddlers known as "quacksalvers" sold mercury ointment. They would claim that their agents would cure all diseases. ...
  15. "Anyone who promotes medical schemes or remedies known to be false, or which are unproven, for a profit." [United States House of Representatives, Select Committee on Aging, Subcommittee on Health and Long-term Care. Quackery: A $10 Billion Scandal. ...
  16. Steven Woods is a Canadian entrepeneur who works for NeoEdge Networks, in Palo Alto as Chief Strategy officer and Chairman. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... ...
  17. medical doctor (used ironically); in its sense of fraud, cozener, impostor, charlatan, or mountebank, its derived from quacksalver
  18. Pertaining to or characterised by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
  19. A term to indicate either the Queen or the Jack in situations where it matters not which of the two cards is held or played.
  20. An ungraduated ignorant pretender to skill in physic, a vender of nostrums.
  21. a sound your car should not make (unless you run over a duck)
  22. (1) A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. / Some quacks in the art of teaching, pretend to make young gentlemen masters of the languages, before they can be masters of common sense. Felton, On the Classicks. ...
  23. To my way of thinking this term implies the dominance of midrange and attack in the tonal texture of a pickups sound. Controversly, some players refer it to positions 2 and 4 on a Strat switch. ...
  24. Q is for quack. We are, after all, ducks.
  25. Poignant, respectful noise to be made when team-mate returns to pavilion after a modest individual total. Especially if he is a bat-chucker. The Australian TV graphic of the duck trudging off, weeping, is believed to be that country’s most significant achievement in the field of the visual arts.