What does rubber-ducked mean?

rubber-ducked

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English

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"'Thanks, boss, but I won't if you don't mind. I'm rubber-ducked. So I'm bound for an early night, Saturday or not!'"
"If the world decides to move out of the dollar and into gold then we are, not to put too fine a point on it, totally rubber-ducked. See Seb, I'm definitely getting the hand of cockney!"

more rubber-ducked (comparative) most rubber-ducked (superlative) rubber ducked (alternative)

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