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rubberduck

rubberduck 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 rubberduck

third-person singular presentrubberducks
present participlerubberducking
past participlerubberducked
pastrubberducked

Questions about rubberduck

What is rubberduck the alternative form of?
Rubberduck is the alternative form of rubber duck.

Words near rubberduck in the dictionary

  1. rubber-stamps
  2. rubberband
  3. rubberbanded
  4. rubberbanding
  5. rubberbands
  6. rubberduck
  7. rubberducked
  8. rubberducking
  9. rubberducks
  10. rubbered
  11. rubbered up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rubberduck (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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