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droid
/ˈdɹɔɪd/
noun 2
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VERB + DROID
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DROID + NOUN
s, water
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noun
1
A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them.
“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” [Obi-Wan] Kenobi told him pleasantly.
2
A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot.
"Okay, Allie, I didn't want to have to do this, but if you insist on behaving like an astromech droid, you leave me no choice." Rory's an accountant and a Star Wars nerd.
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It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and star
Wiktionary02
“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” [Obi-Wan] Kenobi told him pleasantly.
Wiktionary03
The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories. […] Droids couldn't be bribed, she thought with some regret.
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Leonid’s droid tried to be more like a human.
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The droid drank water, which made him malfunction.
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Leonid’s face is similar to the droid’s.
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