duck out (of (somewhere))

to leave a place quickly and without being noticed.

The press was waiting for us in front of the hospital, so we ducked out a side door into the car.

Usage notes: often said about leaving before an event is finished:

She ducked out of the dinner to watch the last quarter of the game.

Related vocabulary: slip away

• make a pig's ear of
• make a pig's ear of doing something
• make a pig's ear of something
• make a pitch for
• make a pitch for something
• make a play for
• make a play for someone
• make a play for something
• make a point of
• make a point of doing something
• make a poor fist of
• make a poor fist of doing something
• make a poor fist of something
• make a practice of
• make a practice of doing something
• make a production of
• make a production of something
• make a production out of
• make a production out of something
• make a quick buck
• make a rod for own back
• make a rod for your own back
• make a run at
• make a run at something
• make a run for it