cancelbotn.
/ˈkansᵻlbɒt/, U.S. /ˈkæns(ə)lˌbɑt/ Computing.
A program that searches for and deletes specified postings from internet newsgroups.
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1993 Re: Disclosing Rites of Secret Societies (e.g. OTO) in alt.magick (Usenet newsgroup) 4 Oct. I have no intentions whatsoever of writing a cancelbot.
1994 Guardian 7 July (OnLine section) 6/1 The lawyers who advertised in Usenet newsgroups are getting their comeuppance. A Norwegian hacker has designed a ‘Cancelbot’ program able to find their adverts and erase them.
1995 Wired Mar. 46/1 Anyone posting on alt.religion.scientology had better tow [sic] the line or risk falling prey to a cancelbot..that deletes messages critical of the church.
1999 Financial Times (Nexis) 23 July 19 The agreement says that information put on the system [sc. eBay] and items sold on it ‘shall not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, [etc.]’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1993- make a etc show
- make a etc slight
- make a etc slight of
- make a etc too hot for
- make a face
- make a false step
- make a fare
- make a fathom
- make a feast of
- make a feast upon
- make a federal case out of
- make a feint
- make a fend
- make a field
- make a fight
- make a figure
- make a fine
- make a fine show
- make a fist
- make a flutter
- make a fool of
- make a fool of oneself
- make a full sethe
- make a funny face
- make a fuss about