robocop
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
robo- + cop, after the film RoboCop (1987).
Noun[edit]
robocop (plural robocops)
- (science fiction) A cyborg police officer.
- 1990, Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.). National Conference, Michael Gorman, Convergence: Proceedings of the Second National Conference...
- As the World Wars were succeeded by the Korean War, which melded into the Vietnam War, science fiction pictured numerous dystopias controlled by means of ever-watchful computer and robocops.
- 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:
- Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.
- 1990, Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.). National Conference, Michael Gorman, Convergence: Proceedings of the Second National Conference...
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
robocop m (plural robocops)