aimbot

See also: Aimbot

English

Etymology tree

English aim

Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos

Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas

Proto-Slavic *orbъ

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei

Proto-Slavic *-iti

Proto-Slavic *orbiti

Proto-Indo-European *-otéh₂

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-atā́ˀ

Proto-Slavic *-ota

Proto-Slavic *orbota

Old Czech robota

Czech robota

Czech robotbor.

English robotclip.

English bot

English aimbot

From aim + bot.

aimbot (plural aimbots)

(video games) A program or patch that allows the player to cheat by having the character's weapon aimed automatically.
- 2020 May 6, Tom Warren, “The world’s biggest PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers”, in The Verge‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 June 2020:
  These tools have gotten increasingly complex in recent years, with whole underground communities and forums dedicated to ensuring aimbots and wallhacks remain undetected for monthly subscription fees. […] Blizzard started detecting Xion and Pentagon aimbot tools for Overwatch around six months ago and promised “major things in the next two patches going in to address anti-cheat” back in January.
- 2021 May 2, Drachinifel, 3:58:12 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 144‎^[2], archived from the original on 26 September 2022:
  For the British, in the first confrontation, [a range-clock system] probably would've been somewhat useful - especially if Iron Duke was giving the ranges, considering that thing seemed to have an aimbot installed - but it would've maybe only marginally improved things for the British, I think.

aimbot (third-person singular simple present aimbots, present participle aimbotting, simple past and past participle aimbotted)