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- noun Plural form of
waldo .
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Examples
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From an area immediately beneath the bay window sprouted two sets of articulated metal arms or "waldoes," one for heavy duty, the other for delicate manipulation.
2001 A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C. 1968
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In theory, he could carry out any maneuver with his control jets, and even perform such remarkable feats as tying knots with the mechanical fingers of the remote manipulator, or "waldoes."
Tin 2010
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He could then clutch the main spars of the antenna with his waldoes, and now that it was firmly attached to the pod, could start to kill the spin.
Tin 2010
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MR: In terms of essentially trivial things, it predicted plastics, night baseball, waldoes, and half a hundred other things early fans used to point to with pride.
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If I remember correctly, they had to actually move stuff around via remotely piloted vehicles and waldoes to get the cameras “inside” the wrecks.
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MR: In terms of essentially trivial things, it predicted plastics, night baseball, waldoes, and half a hundred other things early fans used to point to with pride.
Archive 2008-02-01 Lou Anders 2008
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Cellphones, waterbeds and waldoes were all hypothesized by science fiction writers many years before we actually built them.
Archive 2008-01-01 CC 2008
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The droid team had in fact arrived on the scene–a quartet of Cybot Galactica grapplers, angling for the bucking YT with clasping arms and waldoes extended.
This Time It's Personal.... - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2008
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The waldoes also can be used offensively in combat.
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Heinlein also pursued similar ideas a bit earlier in his 1940 novella Waldo, his story about, well, waldoes – he originated the concept as well as the term.
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