bot

bot definitions

• 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. 

• A physical robot. 

• A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task 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. 

• A supremely unskilled player. 

• To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes. 

• To bugger. 

• To use a bot, or automated program.