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Originally Posted by bryant
Not necessarily, as a bribe is a man-made word to help others convey a meaning of a number of actions related to such, and has also developed a number of connotations and interpretations over 100's of years across 100's of languages, but,
A duck is one word that specifically names a specific number of species that have a specific number of anatomical features, and is not truly subject to much interpretation at all.
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What you say would only be true if one were saying a bribe was a duck.
It's an analogy.
What it is saying is if it looks like a bribe and has all the earmarks of a bribe then it probably is a bribe.