# rubber duck debugging

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck.

## Etymology
From a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer (1999).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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