Zot
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- This article is about the word “zot”. For the comic book, see Zot!.
- "Zot!" is the sound that the anteater makes in the B.C. comic strip authored by Johnny Hart, and also the sound of a bolt of lightning in the same strip. (In the strip's early days the characters invoked an apparent thunder-god figure of that name, as when Thor exclaimed, "Great Zot! I've invented the comb!")
- Zot was a Flash Gordon character; this use led to the word becoming a nickname for Vietnam-era laser-guided bombs.
- ZOT is the (typed) sound of a lightning-strike from the Usenet Oracle when a supplicant annoys the deity.
- On the discussion forum Free Republic, ZOT! is the term for banning those who sign up for the purpose of putting up troll posts. The name of the thread is changed (for example I'm so stupid, I signed up and got the zot) and the forum members are then allowed to attack the zotted troll en masse. The word "Zot" was chosen as a tribute to Johnny Hart's B.C. comic strip.
- "Zot" is the name for God in the Albanian language, a word which has descended from the ancient Illyrian languages, and is related ot the ancient Greek "Zeus."
- "Zots" is a candy novelty from the 70s.
- A zot is a small paper projectile folded over to form a "V" shape, which is then fired with a rubber band.
- A zot is a unit of work as defined in the Bioware Forums. A specified feature requires zot(s) to produce. The term as used has always been unspecific, not defining exactly how much work each individual unit is.
- The term ZOT is used in the popular Mac application store MacZOT!.
