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robot, the 

An old kind of dancing that resembles a robot. It remains semi-popular today.

This can take many different shapes and forms. For example, you could be the standard-lame-person-who-can't-dance and just move your arms up and down in a stiff manner while moving your head around in a robotic fashion. This method is generally frowned upon as n00bish. While this basic kind of robot dancing is lame, a good robot dancer can turn heads even today. Deft control of the wrists, elbows, shoulders, waist, knees, feet, spine, neck, head, eyes, and mouth are required for an expert at the robot. This movement apearing like a robot can be as smooth or jittery as the music allows. Generally works best with most kinds of electronic music, but much straight beat rock and funk works just as well. BPM (tempo) ranges may vary with the dancing style.

All names of Moves and Sub Styles are made up. The moves and styles still exist, however.
Some "The Robot" Moves:
"Hydrolics" - going from stiff to limp at will.
"Liquid Robot" - jittering liquid dance that resembles a strobe light effect.
"Stutter" - moving back and forth between two positions rapidly, making the dancer look like a frozen VHS screen.


Sub-styles are:
"The Man in a Robot Suit" - danger will robinson!
"Industrial Robot" - Much meaner and stiffer.
"The Funky Robot" - It's a robot that doesn't care to look like a robot, but isn't really that great of a dancer.
"The Glitch Robot" - An excessive ammount of stuttering occurs. Enough to convince any normal person that this person is having a seisure. Really only works with glitch or stutter-edit music.
"Putty" - a style that makes the dancer appear as pliable as Silly Putty(tm). Not technically robot dancing, but requires the same full body control.
Look! Phil's doing the robot! I wish I could do that. All I can do is wave my hands around like a raver. I'm gonna go cut my wrists now. :'(
robot, the by RedWater December 13, 2004
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A current internet sensation that has swept the world, a brilliant conglomeration of colours, explosions and tacky 90's pop has been combined to create possibly the greatest accomplishment of mankind.

All other achievements and feats should be considered redundant under the awe of robot unicorn.
34 BC: The lord blessed the world with Jesus
2010 AD: The lord blessed the world with a far superior gift, Robot Unicorn

Joe: Hey man you finished that graduates essay?

Bob: Nah fuck that dude I was seshing it on robot unicorn
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Robot Master 

Used to defined any of the 6 to 8 villians that MegaMan faces in the video game series with the same name made by Capcom Robot Masters were originally intended to help humans with tasks or jobs that were too difficult or dangerous for humans to accomplish. Later, the term was re-defined after Dr. Wily started his campaign for world domination. Robot Masters always have a special power that MegaMan can take from them and use against other Robot Masters, Also, all Robot Masters have names consisting of one word, and "Man" tagged on the end. Thus, GutsMan, DrillMan, and so-forth.
"8 new Robot Masters have appeared to challenge MegaMan!"
Robot Master by Dray84 January 21, 2005

Robot Water 

A red bull and vodka mixed drink.
I drank so many robot waters last night.
Robot Water by Guewilla March 6, 2020

Robot Bukakke 

A term used in Elder Scrolls Online to describe a mechanic of the 2nd boss in the Halls of Fabrication Trial. He will disappear and 4 ghost like images reappear. Each will randomly "blow a load" of energy onto the tank and the tank has to turn and randomly block the wave or it will kill everyone in the path. Hence the term "bukakke".
The tank failed the robot bukakke test and wiped half the group.