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duck-drownder en · NOUN

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1. (Southern-US, especially) A very heavy rain.
   • “We got to move out of here, ahora. Someone from Chisum's bound to ride over this way, lookin’ for you—but you can't wait ‘em out in another duck-drownder." 1980, Garwood, W. R., Kill him, again:
   • The "duck drownder" flood along the Mississippi and the tributaries […]. 1971, Guy Harold Smith with Robert M. Basile, Conservation of natural resources:

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