Borg

Meanings

Noun

• One who proselytises or assimilates.

Verb

• To assimilate rivals, via corporate acquisition or religious proselytisation.
• To turn into a cyborg, to implant machinery into people with the intent of controlling or assimilating them.

Origin

• From the Star Trek franchise, in which the Borg are a cyborg race intent on converting all other life into their own kind; apparently a clipping of cyborg, from cybernetic + organism.