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Roid vs Droid - What's the difference?

roid | droid |

As nouns the difference between roid and droid

is that roid is while droid is a robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.

roid

English

Alternative forms

* 'roid

Noun

(en noun)
  • (bodybuilding, slang) Anabolic steroids.
  • (sports, slang) Illegal and/or banned performance-enhancing steroids used by athletes and others.
  • (vulgar, slang) Hemorrhoids.
  • Derived terms

    * roid rage

    See also

    * gym candy * pumpers ----

    droid

    English

    (wikipedia droid)

    Alternative forms

    * 'droid

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1952 , date = July , first = Mari , last = Wolf , authorlink = , title = Robots of the World! Arise! , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31611 , magazine = , volume = 1 , issue = 3 , page = 76 , passage = 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. }}
  • * 1976 , , Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker , New York: Ballantine Books, p 77:
  • “These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly.
  • * 1995 , J. D. Robb, Glory in Death , page 39:
  • The bartender was a droid , as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories.

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