robot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rō′bŏt
enpr: rō′bət
enpr: rō′bōt
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.bɒt/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.bət/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.bət/
ipa: /ˈɹəʉ.bɔt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ro.boʈ/
rhymes: -əʊbɒt
rhymes: -əʊbət
Forms: form: robots
Etymology: Referencing the origin of the name of the 4chan imageboard /r9k/ (created in 2008), so-called because it implements the ROBOT9000 algorithm by Randall Munroe to prevent the reposting of content.
Possibly overlapping with the sense of robot (“a person who does not seem to have any emotions”), alluding to autism, due to the prevalence of personal stories describing awkward or embarrassing situations on the board.
Senses: examples: text: One anonymous message addressed to "fellow robots" hoped readers would have "an enjoyable Elliot Rodger day"—a reference to the shooter who killed six near a Santa Barbara university last year.
ref: 2015 October 1, David Kravets, “Ominous messages left on 4chan day before Oregon college killings [Updated]”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: Posters on the board are locked in an ongoing debate about who can be one of them— a "robot." Can white guys be robots, despite their privilege? Can black guys? Women love them! It goes on and on. Only one rule really seems to be agreed upon: "If you have no friends and no gf you are a robot."
ref: 2015 October 3, Jay Hathaway, “How 4chan Trolled Two of Its Friends by Framing Them for the Oregon Mass Shooting”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2022:
text: It continued: "On October 5, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. CT, a fellow robot will take up arms against a university near Philadelphia. His cries will be heard, his victims will cower in fear, and the strength of the Union will decay a little more."
ref: 2015 October 5, Justin Wm. Moyer, anonymous quotee, “Philadelphia colleges on alert after 4chan post threatens violence Monday”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2016:
text: As /r9k/ robots posted and reposted Pepes to playfully mock their status as grotesque outsiders whose very visage was disturbing to "normies," they ushered in a renaissance of frogs that soon appealed to all the netizens who every year had a little more in common with withdrawn, internet-soaked hikikomori.
ref: 2019, Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books, →ISBN:
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: A habitual poster on the /r9k/ board on 4chan; a member of the /r9k/ community.
Synonyms: word: bot
word: robo
word: robot
word: clanker
Hypernyms: word: automaton
word: device
word: machine
Hyponyms: word: android
word: animatron
word: anthrobot
word: biomechanoid
word: bion
word: biot
word: biobot
word: biorobot
word: cobot
word: cyborg
word: droid
word: drone
word: fembot
word: gastrobot
word: gynoid
word: humaniform
word: manbot
word: mech
word: mecha
word: mechanoid
word: microbot
word: microrobot
word: mobot
word: nanobot
word: replicant
word: robocar
word: robocat
word: robodog
word: robodroid
word: robofish
word: roboid
word: skin job
word: soft robot
word: spokesdroid
word: telepuppet
word: telerobot
word: turtle
word: walker
word: agribot
word: astrobot
word: killbot
word: nursebot
word: robochef
word: robodoc
word: robonaut
word: robopet
word: salesbot
word: sexbot
word: warbot
word: adbot
word: annoybot
word: cancelbot
word: chatbot
word: crawler
word: gamebot
word: hackbot
word: knowbot
word: modbot
word: newsbot
word: pornbot
word: robolawyer
word: scambot
word: shopping bot
word: spambot
Related terms: word: android
word: artificial intelligence
word: clanker
word: computer
word: cyborg
word: domotics
word: pedipulator
word: robot revolution
word: -bot
word: robotic
word: robotics
word: robotization
word: robo-
word: robocall
word: robosexual
word: tin man