Rubber Duckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

別の表記

• rubber duckie
• rubber ducky

発音

名詞

rubber duck (plural rubber ducks)

1. A toy, made from rubber or rubber-like plastic, shaped like a duck; usually a floating bathtub toy.
2. (nautical, slang) An inflatable boat.
   • 2023 October 2, Emily Bissland, “Warrnambool beach evacuated as surf lifesaver is 'catapulted' from rogue inflatable rescue boat”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation‎:

     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.

派生語

• rubber ducking
• rubber duck debugging
• unsinkable rubber duck

参照

• Inflatable boat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

別の表記

• rubberduck
• rubber-duck

動詞

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

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

関連する語

• ducking