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    What it means

    Literally “duck’s rump.” Describes a hairstyle where the hair at the back is styled to curl upward like a duck’s tail — the Polish name for the ducktail or DA haircut, popular in the 1950s–60s. Also used humorously for any hair sticking up at the back.

    Vocabulary

    • kaczka — duck
    • kuper — rump, backside (of a bird); colloquial for buttocks

    Grammar note

    'Kaczy' is the adjective from 'kaczka' — nominative masculine agreeing with 'kuper'.

    Cultural context

    The ducktail hairstyle was associated with Polish 'bikiniarze' — the Polish equivalent of teddy boys or greasers in the 1950s.

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