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Optimus

proper nounattested in dialogue

A pet name for a device, such as a car, computer, or robot.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A pet name for a device, such as a car, computer, or robot.

Etymology

From Latin optimus; For optimum, optimate, optimal. Popularized by the fictional robot character Optimus Prime in the 1980s.

Forms

plural
Optimuses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).