Troid

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the video games in the Metroid franchise. slang

    "Games I look forward to next year: [...] Metroid Prime 4 (I’ve never played one of the 3D troids but I wanna)"

  2. 2
    A transgender person. Internet, derogatory, offensive

    "at least we both concede that troids are hard on the eyes"

  3. 3
    An individual member of the fictional alien Metroid species in this franchise. slang

    "The much derided linearity is merely a reappearance of the linearity of Metroid 2, with it's coincidental earthquakes when you killed troids"

Example

More examples

"Games I look forward to next year: [...] Metroid Prime 4 (I’ve never played one of the 3D troids but I wanna)"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of Metroid.

Etymology 2

From tranny + -oid, probably as an abbreviation of earlier slur trannoid.

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