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Ducks catching nothing and drops the ball (5)

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I believe the answer is:

boobs

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'drops the ball' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'ducks catching nothing' is the wordplay.
'ducks' becomes 'bobs' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'catching' is an insertion indicator.
'nothing' becomes 'O' (O resembles 0).
'bobs' enclosing 'o' is 'BOOBS'.

'and' is the link.

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(Another definition for boobs that I've seen is " Blunders".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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