'bot

Noun (1)

bot (plural bots)

1. The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
   • Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part 1, line 2.1.9

Noun (2)

bot (plural bots)

1. (UK, slang) The bottom or backside.

Noun (3)

bot (plural bots)

1. (informal) A physical robot.
   • I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.1998, David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's best SF 3, page 130
2. A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
   • The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust...
3. A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
   • Next, you are placed in the world of RuneScape, which is similar to our own, with trees, grass, buildings, animals, and of course, people. In RuneScapes shops and banks there are bots' (computer-controlled players).2004, Daniel Sulpizi, “Rally Your Troops for RuneScape2”, in The Toronto Star

   Synonyms:

   NPC, AI

4. (derogatory, slang) A supremely unskilled player.
   • "That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer

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