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rubber duck

noun

  1. toy made of rubber (often used in the bath)
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. A toy, made from rubber or rubber-like plastic, shaped like a duck; usually a floating bathtub toy.
  2. An inflatable boat.

    Around midday on Saturday, Warrnambool's main beach was evacuated when a volunteer from Warrnambool Surf Life Saving Club was thrown into the ocean from an inflatable rescue boat (IRB), often referred to as a rubber duck.

verb

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