Meanings
plural wirebacks
- derogatoryslangA robot or artificial intelligence.
I don't support giving rights to tinskin wireback clankers!
1 more example
Clanker. Wireback. Cogsucker. People are feeling the inescapable inevitability of AI developments, the encroaching of the digital into everything from entertainment to work. And their answer? Slurs.
[2025 August 6, CT Jones, “How ‘Clanker’ Became the Internet’s New Favorite Slur”, in Rolling Stone, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 19 Oct 2025Synonyms: clanker, cogsucker, rust monkey, tinskin
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
By surface analysis, wire + back, in reference to protruding wires on the backs of some real and fictional robots. Adapted from wetback.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
wireback. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wireback
“wireback.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wireback. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wireback,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wireback.
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