megatron
/ˈmɛɡ.əˌtɹɑn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A disc-seal tube, used in lighthouses or submersibles.
noun
A fan of American singer-songwriter and television personality Meghan Trainor (born 1993).
Slang
Example Sentences
- "We've got Edie, I think she's gone slightly mad, may be off the boil a bit. Chances of that one... two percent. Dr. Ku, ill give that a zero percent chance. Then we've got Steve with his ejaculation megatron. Yeah, I'll give him forty percent chance."
- "Megatronz, check out Meghan Trainor's 'Lips Are Movin' video here, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the vid below!"
- "The attention span of the #Megatrons, as Trainor has christened her fans, presumably falls somewhere between the six-second length of a Vine and the 15-second limit on an Instagram video."
- "But when L.A. Reid, CEO of Epic Records, heard “That Bass,” he fell in love with Meghan’s empowering, in-your-face lyrics—as did all her fans (hey, Megatronz!), who have clicked on her YouTube video roughly 500 million times."
- "It was “Title” – which Trainor later deemed “the best song of the night” – that had the singer seemingly marvelling at her “Megatronz,” who sang the whole way through."
- "From then on, it’s wall-to -all hits as she leads a full backing band and troupe of dancers, and has her ‘Megatrons’ – her largely pre-teen fanbase – in the palm of her hand."
Etymology
Blend of Meghan + -tron (influenced in form by Megatron, a fictional character among the Transformers, whose name was influenced by megatron, mega-, M, and -tron).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɛɡ.əˌtɹɑn/
- British English: /ˈmɛɡ.əˌtɹɒn/