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▸ noun: (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
▸ noun: (metonymically): One who performs menial or tedious work.
▸ noun: A remotely operated vehicle:
▸ noun: (metonymically): An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
▸ noun: (expansion of the sense "an unmanned or remotely operated aircraft"): (chiefly military) Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
▸ noun: (Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
▸ noun: (chiefly Internet slang, derogatory) A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
▸ verb: (transitive, colloquial) To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
▸ verb: To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
▸ verb: To speak in a monotone.
▸ noun: A low-pitched hum or buzz.
▸ noun: (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
▸ noun: (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
▸ noun: A humming or deep murmuring sound.
▸ noun: (UK, slang) The drug mephedrone.
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
drone on,
dawdler,
monotone,
laggard,
bourdon,
drone pipe,
pilotless aircraft,
Radio-controlled aircraft,
worker,
queen,
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Types:
quadcopter,
hexacopter,
octocopter,
fixed-wing drone,
mini drone,
FPV drone,
autonomous drone,
delivery drone,
more...
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