noun General Slang

Rubber duck

· noun · construction

A wheeled excavator, as opposed to a tracked one.

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Site slang for a wheeled excavator, the kind that rolls on rubber tyres instead of steel tracks. Named for the tyres. Handy on tarmac and roadworks where tracks would chew the surface, but less stable on soft ground than its tracked cousin.

“Bring the rubber duck up, we don't want tracks on the new car park.”
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In programming, the debugging technique of explaining your code line by line to an inanimate object (originally a literal rubber duck) until you spot the bug yourself.

“I rubber-ducked the whole function and found the typo in two minutes.”
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CB radio trucker slang for a fellow trucker, especially when calling for a chat on the airwaves. Popularised by the 1975 C.W. McCall song 'Convoy'.

“Breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck.”
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Rubber duck In A Sentence

Bring the rubber duck up, we don't want tracks on the new car park.
I rubber-ducked the whole function and found the typo in two minutes.
Breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck.

Origin & Usage

Variants rubber-duck
Tags #construction#trades#plant#excavator

People Also Ask

What is a rubber duck in construction?

A rubber duck is a wheeled excavator, as opposed to a tracked one.

How do you use rubber duck in a sentence?

"Bring the rubber duck for the roadwork — it's quicker to move between sites than the tracked machine."

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