robocop

English

Etymology

robo- +‎ cop, after the film RoboCop (1987).

Noun

robocop (plural robocops)

1. (science fiction) A cyborg police officer.
   • 1990, Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.). National Conference, Michael Gorman, Convergence: Proceedings of the Second National Conference...

     As the World Wars were succeeded by the Korean War, which melded into the Vietnam War, science fiction pictured numerous dystopias controlled by means of ever-watchful computer and robocops.

   • 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

     Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

Spanish

Noun

robocop m (plural robocops)

1. robocop