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treknobabble

noun
/ˈtɹɛknoʊˌbæbəl/US/ˈtɹɛknəʊˌbæbəl/UK

Etymology

Blend of Trek + technobabble.

  1. derived from *baba-✻
  2. derived from *bʰa-bʰa-✻
  3. inherited from *babalōną✻
  4. inherited from *bablōn✻
  5. inherited from *bæblian✻
  6. inherited from babelen
  7. prefixed as technobabble — “techno + babble”
  8. compounded as treknobabble — “Trek + technobabble”

Definitions

  1. A kind of technobabble particular to the Star Trek universe, with a particularly heavy…

    A kind of technobabble particular to the Star Trek universe, with a particularly heavy emphasis on configurations of pseudoscientific particles and waves.

    • I'd sooner trust treknobabble for an explanation than any thing you say.
    • So you think up something like Voyager meets some Romulans stranded in the DQ, or some treknobabble takes down the command staff and Seven assumes command.
    • Even if they won using the power of treknobabble, this force ratio does not show the audience how mighty and dangerous the Imperial warships are […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for treknobabble. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA