LUCKY DUCK: Rhyme Words with a Hiccup


This is a list of words and phrases that have a rhyming pattern similar to that of "lucky duck", that is, a beginning, a one syllable space, and a rhyming end.

        abracadabra (a magic word)
        ackamaracka (a long involved exculpatory story)
        AOK (in order; perfect)
        [your] ass is grass (you are in serious trouble)
        bag and tag (to collect and mark a trophy or prize)
        beat the meat (to masturbate)
        bet and sweat (new gambling devices that include an exercise
          bicycle)
        blabs in labs (a college linguistics course)
        bob a job (what British Boy Scouts say, when they solicit work)
        bob a nob (one shilling per person)
        boozeroo (a drinking bout)
        Box and Cox (two men who share a room for one)
        break it and shake it (waitress code meaning to crack an egg and
          add it to a drink)
        bric-a-brac (miscellaneous objects displayed as a collection)
        bricks and clicks (a combination store and web site business)
        bum to mum (an order to rugby players to abstain from pregame
          sex)
        candyman
        cash is trash (the motto of stock-brokers)
        chicken brick (earthenware cooking container)
        chips and dip (potato chips and dip)
        chock-a-block
        chokes and croaks (a college first aid course)
        chuck-a-luck (a banking game using three dice)
        chug-a-lug (to drink many swallows without pause)
        clag the bag (to die)
        clerks and jerks (the soldiers in a noncombat unit)
        cook the books (to falsify financial records)
        corridor
        cracker jack (excellent; self-important)
        crash and dash (a timed skiing run between two points of a piste)
        creep and weep (the slow search and recover of sunken practice
          torpedoes)
        crinoline
        cut and shut (the practice of trimming the edges of a worn rug,
          and resewing the edges, to improve its value)
        denizen
        ding-a-ling (an idiot)
        dish and swish (a stle of basketball playing)
        dos-a-dos (back to back)
        dosido (a square dancing figure)
        drain the vein (to urinate)
        dream and cream (to have sexual fantasies)
        drop a bop (take a drug in pill form)
        dupey dupe (a particularly stupid constable)
        etiquette (a code of manners)
        fair and square (equitable)
        fancy Dan (a snappy dresser)
        fancy man (a male lover)
        fancy pants (a person mocked for putting on airs)
        farm to arm (a drug operation which grows, processes and sells
          its product)
        fiddley-did (the sum of one pound)
        fight or flight (the conflicting urges a creature feels when
          threatened)
        fill or kill (a stock market order to be filled immediately or
          canceled)
        fill the bill (to satisfy a need)
        fingering (touching; the feel or play of a string intstrument)
        flash and trash (local news specials, shown during sweeps weeks,
          that emphasize sex and violence)
        flash the ash (to pass one's cigarette pack around)
        (whatever) floats your boat (satisfies you)
        flog the dog (to masturbate)
        flog the log (to masturbate)
        flong the dong (to masturbate)
        flub the dub (to evade one's duty; to fail)
        folderol (nonsense)
        fudge and mudge (to avoid commitment)
        funky drunk (very intoxicated)
        geeze Louise (an exclamation of exasperation or surprise)
        gloom and doom (forecasts of woe)
        goon platoon (a squad of misfits)
        grain and drain (a bread and water diet)
        hack a Shaq (to deliberately foul Shaquille Oneal who is a poor
          free thrower)
        hack attack (a period of frenzied programming)
        Hackensack (a town in New Jersey)
        hackmatack (an American larch tree)
        hard as lard (excellent)
        hasta la pasta (a joking farewell)
        herb superb (marijuana)
        high and dry (safe from danger)
        highways and byways (all roads, big and small)
        hire and fire (the power to employ and let go)
        hither and thither (here and there)
        hob a nob (hob nob)
        hob and nob (hob nob)
        hodmandod (a shelled snail)
        hog in togs (a man about town)
        hoi polloi (the common people)
        hokey smoke (how Rocky the Squirrel would swear)
        holes and poles (a college sex education class)
        holy Joe (a chaplain)
        honky tonk (a loud and gamey bar)
        hoochinoo (an Alaskan tribe; an alcoholic drink they brew)
        hook or crook (by any means)
        hoopdie swoop (to move in on, and pick up a person with great
          speed)
        hop and drop (to limp)
        horses for courses (an enigmatic phrase that means people have
          different talents)
        hot to trot (eager)
        hotsy potatsy a sexually promiscuous person
        Hottentot (a South African tribe)
        huckabuck
        huff and puff (to breathe with great effort)
        hump and bump (to work hard, with occasional promotions or
          rewards)
        hump 'em and dump 'em (the stud's credo)
        hunk of junk (a worthless bulky item)
        hunky chunk (a sturdy short muscular worker)
        hurtin' for certain (very ugly)
        hustle your bustle (to hurry; to act as a prostitute)
        ice the rice (waitress code meaning an order of rice pudding 
          with ice cream)
        in like Flynn (in)
        inky dink (a dark-skinned person)
        it from bit (a complete logical theory of the universe, with no
          arbitrary choices, that explains everything, except, I suppose,
          for where the theory itself came from...)
        jai alai
        jeeze Louise (an exclamation)
        jerkin' the gherkin (masturbating)
        jibber the kibber (a device used to mislead and wreck ships 
          for plunder)
        jig-a-jig (sexual intercourse)
        knock acock (to stun; to amaze)
        (to) knock your block (off) (to be surprising or stunning)
        kvetch and wretch (ceaseless complaining)
        la-di-da (carefree; unworried)
        lean and mean (fit, ready for action)
        leather or feather (a choice of beef or chicken for dinner)
        lickin' stick (a sweetheart or lover)
        live at five (the motto of local TV news)
        log the dog (to masturbate)
        loop the loop (to spin around; to complete a circle)
        luck and pluck (a combination of fortune and determination)
        made the grade (passed a test)
        make or break (a decisive test)
        mammogram
        meals on wheels (a food service for the old and sick)
        meet and greet (to perform the rites of mass hospitality)
        meet and street (to examine emergency room patients, and eject 
          the ones whose conditions are not serious)
        merge and purge (to combine two lists, and remove the duplicates)
        might makes right (the assertion of force against law or custom)
        Mike and Ike (waitress code meaning salt and pepper)
        moan and grown (whining)
        layaway (to arrange to have an item set aside, to be paid for in
          installments, and claimed when payment is completed)
        lucky duck (a lucky person)
        lurks and perks (schemes and benefits)
        muck and truck (miscellaneous articles)
        muck-a-muck (an important or high-ranking person)
        mucketymuck (an important or high-ranking person)
        name and shame (to identify petty offenders so as to shame them)
        near and dear (physically and emotionally close)
        nicey nice (overly nice)
        not so hot (less attractive, interesting or cool)
        nuts and sluts (nickname for a college abnormal psychology class)
        odds and sods (odds and ends)
        one and done (the motto of someone who does not plan to repeat something)
        pan and scan (how wide movies are cropped to fit narrow TV's)
        patapat
        pay for play (online games that charge to participate)
        pitch a bitch (complain or whine)
        plug and chug (a problem solving method of substitution followed 
          by manipulation)
        pound the mound (have sexual intercourse)
        pump and dump (to praise a stock and then quickly sell it for
         profit)
        rack attack (a prolonged spell of laziness, spent in bed, the
          "rack")
        Rackensack (a derisive nickname for Arkansas)
        rails to trails (a program for converting railroad tracks to 
          hiking trails)
        rat-a-tat (imitating the sound of a gun or a drum)
        razzmatazz (glitter; fanfare; sparkle)
        read and heed (learn and follow)
        ready for Freddie (ready for anything)
        ricky tick (a bouncy ragtime style from the 1920's; quickly)
        ridgy didge (genuine; excellent)
        rig a jig (to set up a victim)
        rigmajig
        ring-a-ding (run of the mill)
        rinky dink (shoddy; run down; cheaply made)
        rinky tink (simple, repetitive ragtime jazz)
        rixatrix (a quarrelsome brawling woman)
        roast and toast (a ceremony at which a person is both honored and
          gently mocked)
        rope a dope (to trick or beat a gullible person)
        rocks for jocks (the nickname of a "gut" or "Easy A" course)
        rooty toot (old fashioned music)
        rowdy dow (a fight; hubbub)
        rub-a-dub
        rubbin' the nubbin (masturbating)
        run and gun (an aggressive style of basketball)
        sarasar
        sassafras (a root used for flavoring)
        scuttlebutt (rumors; gossip)
        sentiment (feeling)
        sereser
        seventy 'leven (a large indefinite number)
        shake and bake (something quickly made or mass produced; a sergeant
          who has earned stripes quickly)
        shocks for jocks (the nickname for an introductory electrical
          engineering course)
        shoot and scoot (an artillery technique in which artillery is
          moved to a new position after a few firings)
        skaty eight (a large indefinite number)
        slam and jam (an aggressive style of basketball)
        slice and dice (to cut up)
        slums and bums (nickname for a course on urban government)
        smear the queer (a game in which one person grabs the football,
          all the others chase him)
        snack attack (a sudden craving for junk food)
        sneak a peek (to get an advance or unauthorized look at
          something)
        sneak and peek (a covert reconnaissance mission)
        sock the clock (to register on a time clock)
        spank the plank (play the guitar)
        the Stars and Bars (the nickname of the Confederate battleflag)
        steam and cream (a massage bar that offers steam baths and sex)
        steam your beam (make you mad)
        stones and bones (the nickname of a course in archeology)
        stumble bum (an alcoholic beggar)
        stumm and crum (exremely quiet)
        suckabuck (greedy; a greedy person)
        surf and turf (a lobster and steak meal)
        susurrus
        tack attack (a fit of bad taste)
        take the cake (win; be outstanding; be most egregious)
        Tia Maria (a drink)
        tickle the pickle (to masturbage)
        ting-a-ling (imitation of a bell ringing)
        tits and zits (referring to something dealing with 
          teenage romance)
        toil and moil (to work long and hard)
        toodle-oo (a farewell)
        town and gown (a town and the college it supports)
        trash and flash (gaudy tasteless clothing)
        trash to ash (incineration of garbage)
        trig the wig (to think fast)
        twice as nice
        umpty ump (a large indefinite number)
        use it or lose it
        user confuser (nickname for a computer user consultant)
        view halloo (a fox-hunting call)
        wacky tabacky (marijuana)
        walk and talk (a TV news segment in which the presenter walks
          through the scene while delivering the report)
        wear and tear (the normal disintegration of things in this perfect
          world)
        wed and bed
        weed and seed (a combination weed killer and seed for the lazy
          gardener)
        wine and dine (to feed a guest sumptuously)
        zip your lip (to keep quiet)
      

Somehow less worthy:

        Deal a Meal (a set of cards for controlling diet)
        Dip and Strip (an immersive paint removal system)
        Etch a Sketch
        flick your Bic
        hackysack
        Heckle and Jeckle
        Seal a Meal (a system for wrapping leftovers)
        stop and shop
        syphon the python (to urinate, but not a perfect rhyme)
      

Imperfect rhymes:

        cream your jeans
        poppycock
        rattletrap
      

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Last revised on 20 June 2002.