meatbag

English

Etymology

meat + bag. The use as a slur for organic lifeforms – as opposed to robots or AIs – originated with the robot Bender from the animated TV series Futurama, but became popular with its use by killer droid HK-47 from the Star Wars fictional universe.[1]

Noun

meatbag (plural meatbags)

  1. (slang) A stomach.
    • 2002, Jack Hanson, Wildgun: Winter Hunt, Jove:
      “Are you hungry?” she asked as she poured thick black coffee into a large pewter mug. “Reckon I could fill my meatbag ... Um, I mean, yeah, Ma, I could do with something to eat.”
  2. (slang, possibly offensive) A human or another living creature with flesh in its composition.
    • 2018 June 15, Danny Paez, “A.I. Learns to Gaze into the Future By Watching Four Hours of Cooking Videos”, in Inverse.com:
      Ripping the bong and binging cooking videos is nothing but a pass time for us meatbags. But to a sophisticated new artificial intelligence system developed in Germany, four hours of cooking videos is sufficient training for it to learn how to tell the future.

References

  1. Emanuel Maiberg (2015 April 15) “The Evil 'Star Wars' Robot Who Owns the Term 'Meatbag'”, in Motherboard, Vice.com

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