Borg
proper nounnounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//bɔːɡ//
- United States//bɔɹɡ//
A surname
proper noun
- 1
A surname
Etymology
* As a Danish and Norwegian surname, from various places derived from Old Norse borg (“stronghold”). * As a north/Low German surname, this is the Low German form of the surname Burg. * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish בורג (burg, “credit”), from Middle High German borgen (“to lend, borrow”), from Old High German borgēn. * As a Maltese surname, from the noun borġ (“tower, stronghold”), distantly related to the first two senses above.
noun
- 1
slangOne who proselytises or assimilates.
Go for the fun of it (yes, I am one of the Borgs) and don't let equipment bother you. Just remember this even when the Borgs assimilate you.
Etymology
From the Star Trek franchise, in which the Borg are a cyborg race intent on converting all other life into their own kind; apparently a clipping of cyborg, from cybernetic + organism.
verb
- 1
slangTo assimilate rivals, via corporate acquisition or religious proselytisation.
[object Object]
They are trying to turn you into them. They are trying to borg us.
- 2
slangTo turn into a cyborg, to implant machinery into people with the intent of controlling or assimilating them.
We already do it and they tell us they're going to Borg us with fucking stuff into our brains and we won't have to talk to each other.
2001, Rick C. Hodgin, GeekNews Intel wants to Borg us!
Forms
- plural
- Borgs
- past tense
- Borged
- past participle
- Borged
- present participle
- Borging
- third person singular
- Borgs