Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

autoban

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-to-ban
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An automatic ban; a ban administered automatically.

verb

To ban automatically.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The Observer discovered the autoban while reporting a story on threats to SXSW this week, writing a post on Kotaku In Action, and noticed the following warning (the warning remains live)."
"Users who vandalize the site will be autobanned."
"Yet, rather than enter into the decision to autoban certain subreddits quickly, the /r/Rape mods explained they had a meeting to discuss the option after repeated spikes in abuse."

Etymology

From auto- + ban.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

autobans (plural) autobans (present, singular) autobanning (participle, present) autobanned (participle, past) autobanned (past)

Questions

What does autoban mean?: An automatic ban; a ban administered automatically.
Where does autoban come from?: From auto- + ban.

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