clanker
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Noun — A thing that produces a clanking sound.
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Etymology
Built from clank plus the agent suffix -er, an onomatopoeic formation. The sense "robot" turns up in science fiction as early as 1958, and its wider popular use grew on social media from around 2024 onward, driven by the AI boom. That surge owed a lot to the word's use in the Star Wars franchise, especially the 2005 vi...
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