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bot
/bɑt/
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What does bot mean?
noun
- 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.
verb
- (slang) To bugger.
- (informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
More meanings (10)
noun
- (slang) The bottom or backside.
- (informal) A physical robot.
- 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.
- A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
- Initialism of beginning of tape.
- Initialism of Build–operate–transfer.
- Abbreviation of Bǽh-oe-tu.
- (derogatory, slang) A supremely unskilled player.
- (derogatory) A person with no ability to think for themselves; (by extension) an unintelligent or contemptible person.
verb
- To use a bot, or automated program.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɑt/
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See my remarks in "Variationen der Bluten", "Pringsheim's Jahrb. Wiss. Bot."