rubber duck (English, verb)
expansion: rubber duck (third-person singular simple present rubber ducks, present participle rubber ducking, simple past and past participle rubber ducked)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To act as a sounding board for a programmer that is debugging their code, facilitating rubber duck debugging.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: rubber ducks
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rubber ducking
tags: participle
present
form: rubber ducked
tags: participle
past
form: rubber ducked
tags: past
form: rubberduck
tags: alternative
form: rubber-duck
tags: alternative