rubber duck

Speech parts

1. rubber duck - Noun

2. rubber duck - Verb

Meaning

A toy, made from rubber or rubber-like plastic, shaped like a duck; usually a floating bathtub toy.

(nautical, slang) An inflatable boat.

rubber duck (third-person singular simple present rubber ducks, present participle rubber ducking, simple past and past participle rubber ducked)

(transitive, programming) To act as a sounding board for a programmer that is debugging their code, facilitating rubber duck debugging.

rubber-duck (third-person singular simple present rubber-ducks, present participle rubber-ducking, simple past and past participle rubber-ducked)

Alternative form of rubber duck

Alternative names

rubber-duck

Examples

One is never alone with a rubber duck. Douglas Adams

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. Cassandra Clare

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" George Will

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst. Florentijn Hofman

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress. Florentijn Hofman

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