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Android Debug Bridge, for future readers

I always mentally converted it to:

Android De Bugger

Does that make sense? No. But that’s what I subliminally assumed it must mean.

It does make sense — the Unix debugger has always been *db, with no bridges in sight.

I was thinking Apple Desktop Bus. Obviously dating myself.

"adb" was also the name of the debugger in early versions of UNIX. I remember using it in Version 7: