wireback

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Etymology

By surface analysis, wire +‎ back, in reference to protruding wires on the backs of some real and fictional robots. Adapted from wetback.

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Noun

wireback (plural wirebacks)

1. (slang, derogatory) A robot or artificial intelligence.

   Synonyms: clanker, cogsucker, rust monkey, tinskin

   I don't support giving rights to tinskin wireback clankers!

   • [2025 August 6, CT Jones, “How ‘Clanker’ Became the Internet’s New Favorite Slur”, in Rolling Stone‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 19 October 2025:

     Clanker. Wireback. Cogsucker. People are feeling the inescapable inevitability of AI developments, the encroaching of the digital into everything from entertainment to work. And their answer? Slurs.]