mobot

M3O1B3O1T1
/ˈməʊbɒt/

noun

A mobile autonomous robot, especially one used in artificial intelligence research, or as a toy.

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Meanings

mobot1

nounmobot (plural mobots)

plural mobots

  1. A mobile autonomous robot, especially one used in artificial intelligence research, or as a toy.

Mobot2

noun
  1. A celebratory dance where the arms and hands form an "M"-shape over the head, associated with runner Mo Farah.

    I felt like a balloon, floating above all this mayhem, looking down on someone who looked like me doing the Mobot with Mo Farah (he thanked me for inventing it, by the way).

    2014, Clare Balding, Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles, Penguin UK, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    In 2012, the Foundation started up the “do the Mobot” campaign, encouraging everyone to do a Mobot dance in order to raise £100,000 towards the Mo Farah orphanage & sports academy.

    2013, Michael Hurley, Mo Farrah, Raintree, →ISBN, page 22

    A rare break in proceedings before 'Song 2' brought yet another surprise, as Damon successfully got an entire field of revellers to do the 'Mobot' in honour of track star and double-goldwinning medallist Mo Farah.

    2013, Martin Power, The Life of Blur, Music Sales Group, →ISBN

Origin

mobot · noun

  1. Englishmobile
  2. Old Czechrobota
  3. Czechrobota
  4. Czechrobot
  5. Englishrobotclip.
  6. Englishbot
  7. Englishmobot

From mobile + -bot.

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Mobot · noun

Blend of Mo (“nickname for Mohamed”) + robot (“dance move”).

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