roboid

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noun

A robotic creature.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounroboid (plural roboids)

plural roboids

  1. literatureA robotic creature.

    A roboid waiter, human-like but running on hidden casters, paused with a tray of drinks.

    1974, Michael Moorcock, The shores of death
    2 more examples

    The terrifying thing about all of this is that we now have a distinct possibility that a hive of aliens with their attendant purely biomechanical roboids the Greys, from another part of our universe, are intercepting and intervening in the affairs of our species.

    1998, Nigel Kerner, Song of the Greys

    It is their challenge, with the help of Tania, a roboid, to adapt the siblings to their new environment.

    2009, Arnold J. Inzko, The Siblings' Legacy

Origin

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