Voltron

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noun

A group of things that are more powerful when combined.

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Meanings

nounVoltron (plural Voltrons)

plural Voltrons

  1. informalA group of things that are more powerful when combined.

    Gee whiz, did [Scott Adams] use every single strategy we've mentioned, like a grifter Voltron: He combined semantics, diversion, and just batshit fantasy into an entire day of tweets.

    2020 May 28, Some More News, 19:25, in That Time Everyone Tried To Defend Injecting Bleach, spoken by Cody Johnston
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    All of it is a little mysterious, but basically this is the long awaited time when all of Elon Musk's sort of Voltron-like companies are going to take a stab at going public together.

    2026 June 5, Hard Fork podcast, 4:59, in What the Trillion-Dollar I.P.O. Race Means for the Rest of Us, spoken by Kevin Roose
  2. collectible card gamesA deck with a strategy of casting a single, powerful card.

Origin

Name of a combining giant robot in the Japanese-American animated television series Voltron: Defender of the Universe, first released in 1984.

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APA

Voltron. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Voltron

MLA

“Voltron.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Voltron. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Voltron,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Voltron.

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