rubber duck
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Noun
editrubber duck (plural rubber ducks)
- A toy, made from rubber or rubber-like plastic, shaped like a duck; usually a floating bathtub toy.
- (nautical, slang) An inflatable boat.
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edittoy shaped like a duck
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edit- Inflatable boat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
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editrubber 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.