rubber-ducked

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of rubber ducked
   • 1994, Quintin Jardine, chapter 14, in Skinner's Festival, Headline Publishing:

     '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!'

   • 2017, Brian Terry, Gold ₂ Dust, Matador, page 145:

     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!

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• rubber ducked

Verb

rubber-ducked

1. simple past and past participle of rubber-duck