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title: "clanker · GenZ Decoded"
description: "clanker: A slang insult for a robot or AI. Example: \"The chatbot froze again, stupid clanker.\" Meaning, Gen Z usage, and related slang."
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# clanker

Gen Z[#internet](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/internet/)

**Meaning.** A slang insult for a robot or AI.

See it in a sentence

The chatbot froze again, stupid clanker.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z · this one

    clanker

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

    No word for this one yet.

- Gen X

    No word for this one yet.

- Boomer

    No word for this one yet.

- Plain English

    slang insult for a robot or AI

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## Related slang

- [chat](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/chat/): A way of addressing your audience or friends as if livestreaming, often for a reaction.
- [chronically online](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/chronically-online/): Spending so much time on the internet that your views and jokes stop making sense to people offline; usually a put-down, sometimes said about yourself.
- [clickbait](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/clickbait/): Low-quality online content designed mainly to attract clicks.
- [crack up](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/crack-up/): To make someone laugh very hard.

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