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BOT

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

BOT is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

BOTS-s 1 BOTT-t 1 BOTTING-ting 5 BOTTED-ted 3
noun
  1. 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.
  2. c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part 1, line 2.1.9
  3. Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots.
  4. 1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76
  5. One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
  6. 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157
  7. Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.
  8. UKslangThe bottom or backside.
  9. informalA physical robot.
  10. A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
  11. A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
  12. derogatoryslangA supremely unskilled player.
  13. InternetderogatoryoftenA person with no ability to think for themselves; (by extension) an unintelligent or contemptible person.
verb
  1. UKslangTo bugger.
  2. AustraliainformalTo ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
    • Can I bot a smoke?
    • Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.
  3. To use a bot, or automated program.
    • Players caught botting will be banned from the server.