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rubber-duck

rubber-duck is the alternative form of rubber duck.

Meaning of rubber duck

Verb

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

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

See all 3 meanings of rubber duck

Forms of rubber-duck

third-person singular presentrubber-ducks
present participlerubber-ducking
past participlerubber-ducked
pastrubber-ducked

Questions about rubber-duck

What is rubber-duck the alternative form of?
Rubber-duck is the alternative form of rubber duck.

Words near rubber-duck in the dictionary

  1. rubber vines
  2. rubber-band
  3. rubber-banded
  4. rubber-banding
  5. rubber-bands
  6. rubber-duck
  7. rubber-ducked
  8. rubber-ducking
  9. rubber-ducks
  10. rubber-hose
  11. rubber-hose cryptanalysis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rubber-duck (page history and authors); rubber duck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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