How to pronounce deck

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What deck means

verb

Most people know deck in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To dress up a place with bright decorations

In a sentence: We deck the classroom with paper chains before the holiday party.

Where it comes from: It comes from an old Dutch word, dekken, meaning to cover. The deck of a ship comes from the same family of words.

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