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Droid

//ˈdɹɔɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).

    "It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them."

  2. 2
    A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot. US, derogatory

    ""Okay, Allie, I didn't want to have to do this, but if you insist on behaving like an astromech droid, you leave me no choice." Rory's an accountant and a Star Wars nerd."

Etymology

Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”), coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1926) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.

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