wireback
wireback noun: a robot or artificial intelligence.
Noun
wireback (plural wirebacks)
- A robot or artificial intelligence.
- I don't support giving rights to tinskin wireback clankers!
- 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 2025
Synonyms of wireback
Forms of wireback
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Origin of wireback
By surface analysis, wire + back, in reference to protruding wires on the backs of some real and fictional robots. Adapted from wetback.
Questions about wireback
- What does wireback mean?
- Wireback means a robot or artificial intelligence.
- What part of speech is wireback?
- Wireback is a noun.
- What is the plural of wireback?
- The plural of wireback is wirebacks.
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