The word 'ducktail' is a legitimate word that can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a hairstyle, where the back of the hair is brushed up and styled to resemble the tail of a duck. It can also be used to describe a type of car design, where the rear of the car tapers into two distinct points, resembling a duck's tail. Example: The greaser at the party had a slicked back ducktail and wore a leather jacket.
He was 19 years old; a good-looking boy with acne on his neck, long sideburns, and long, greasy hair combed in a ducktail that he had to keep patting down.
Bill had been none too impressed, and Scotty's wife had just about bolted out the back door when the kid arrived wearing a black shirt, pink pants with a black stripe, white shoes, and that long greasy ducktail.
The many plots involve Debbie Harry and Sonny Bono as Amber's parents, who are monomaniacal about her becoming Miss Auto Show; Jerry Stiller as Tracy's father; Waters himself as a sick psychiatrist; and Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora as the first of the lank-haired beatniks who are about to displace the ducktail and beehive brigades.
Her hair is cut in a ducktail — she recalled dashing into the barbershop in her little Pennsylvania town and asking for a crewcut, and being offered a compromise.
Seated importantly behind it was a boy of about sixteen, with long black hair carefully combed back in the style known as a ducktail and wearing a wide-shouldered double-breasted blue suit.
My new stepbrother, Bill, though, was the same age as my cousins, just as good-looking but with a Catholic twist — he wore his hair in a ducktail with long sideburns, he smoked, and he was always working on the engine of his '56 Chevy.
His art attained full power in one of his first dye-transfers, printed in the early nineteen-seventies from a transparency made in the sixties: a supermarket lad awkwardly collecting shopping carts in late-afternoon sun that sets his reddish ducktail-combed hair and adolescent flesh uncannily aglow.
Matt Mondanile of Ducktails, another artist labelled with the chillwave tag, said, "Nostalgia is a huge part of American culture especially among my generation.
The boys looked mildly menacing, with their greased pompadours and ducktails and flagrantly displayed cigarettes, a pack squaring their shirt pockets and an unfiltered singleton tucked behind one ear.
Every strand of his interesting hair — its gravity-defying ducktails and dry pompadour, its telltale absence of gray — was where he wanted it to be.
Its well-selected roster this year welcomes a spate of solid indie-rock acts: Generationals, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside and Waxahatchee (July 11), Foxygen and Thao & the Get Down Stay Down (July 25); and Titus Andronicus and Ducktails (Aug. 8).
