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n. (rubber duck English)
Usage examples of "rubber ducks".
There she sat on a wall and remembered Dennis and his rubber ducks and she wondered if he would still be alive if she hadn't happened along that road, that day.
Pellam found himself in front of a turkey shoot booth, where you could win stuffed birds, chocolate turkeys, and a fifteen-pound frozen one by plinking tiny sponge rubber ducks - painted to look like turkeys - with a battered Sears pump action .
She crossed the hall to the bathroom and found the usual fleet of rubber ducks and tugboats.
Jemmahad tried everything: bubbles, rubber ducks, soaps shaped like rosesand frogs.
But this time we'll take the minutes needed to deflate and hide the rubber ducks.
He had a transistor radio going, a cooler full of ice and beer under his feet, and a swimming pool - one of those little inflatable ones that kids use - a pool a few feet away with an inflatable raft and a couple of rubber ducks in it.
They either brought me rubber ducks for the bath, or other toys for virtual infants-or else they brought me Fowler's Modern English Usage: something every six-year-old should plunge into.
He moved, he stirred, he seemed to feel the rush of life along his keel, and while I don't suppose he actually put on several pounds in weight as the tale proceeded, one got the distinct illusion that he was swelling like one of those rubber ducks which you fill with air before inserting them in the bath tub.
Kayla smiled in spite of herself, remembering how Billy had climbed through an open apartment window only to find the occupant, a fat middle-aged man, up to his neck in bubbles in his bathtub with several rubber ducks floating around him.
Kayla smiled in spite of herself, remembering how Billy had climbed through an open apartment window only to find the occupant, a fat middleaged man, up to his neck in bubbles in his bathtub with several rubber ducks floating around him.