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- noun science fiction A
robot designed tokill ; arobotic assassin .
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Examples
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Well, it only gets worse, as a giant Dominator killbot smashes through the wall!
Supergirl & The Legion of Super-Heroes #28 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Keanu plays Klaatu, the wise alien who, in the original, landed in DC with his chaperone, the chrome killbot Gort, and began counseling against atomic brinkmanship with the USSR.
Scott Brown on the Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks Scott Brown 2008
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His self-appointed killbot, Chancellor Michelle Rhee enjoys glowing profiles in Fast Company and gets an hour on the Eli Broad-funded Charlie Rose show (representing perhaps 10% of all television time dedicated to public education annually).
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Rae to Hillier: STFU killbot, we know what we're doing
What he 2008
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Keanu plays Klaatu, the wise alien who, in the original, landed in DC with his chaperone, the chrome killbot Gort, and began counseling against atomic brinkmanship with the USSR.
Scott Brown on the Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks 2008
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This proves that I bought the book, attended an Atwood-themed event, and was sufficiently insignificant to her that she saw no need to direct her paper-signing killbot to extinguish my life!
Archive 2006-03-01 Greg Tannahill 2006
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This proves that I bought the book, attended an Atwood-themed event, and was sufficiently insignificant to her that she saw no need to direct her paper-signing killbot to extinguish my life!
Margaret Atwood Must Destroy All Humans Greg Tannahill 2006
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Its random wandering approach to cleaning the dirt off your floors is downright prehistoric compared to this killbot which actively hunts down and cleans the air in your room.
Gizmodo Andrew Liszewski 2012
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Of course giving the robot a backbone might not be the best idea, as it may one day build enough self esteem to quit cowering, come out from under the table and become a rampaging killbot.
Bearskinrug Articles 2010
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Here we see malodorous anticapitalists righteously dispersed by riot coppers backed by the feared "Jacqimus Prime" killbot - a terrifying cybernetic organism capable of stripping away your civil liberties with a single glance from a distance of two miles.
The Register 2009
lampbane commented on the word killbot
"You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shut down."
May 15, 2008