zot
v.— «I keep remembering the scene from “Independence Day” where all those people who’d crowded to the top of a tall building to welcome the aliens were among the first to get zotted.» —“Aliens attack!” by Mynx Kyttenlair Sept. 28, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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