In gaming slang, botted means a server, lobby, or environment is flooded with bots — automated programs posing as players rather than real humans.
In gaming slang, botted means a server, lobby, or environment is flooded with bots — automated programs posing as players rather than real humans. A botted lobby is a common complaint in competitive games, where bots skew stats, make farming too easy, or undermine the authenticity of a win. It's also used as a verb: you might "get botted" if someone suspects you're not human, or a leaderboard might be "botted" if top scores are impossibly inflated by cheating scripts.
Every match I joined was totally botted — the enemies just walked in straight lines and didn't shoot back.
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(slang) drunk.
(sports, slang) A person or team that loses ("bottles") a lead in a game or a title race.
An automated bot used to flood a Discord server or Twitch chat with messages, often coordinating with multiple alt accounts to overwhelm moderation. Distinct from a Twitch 'raid' (a friendly cross-channel viewer hand-off). Raid bots are universally bannable, and most large servers/Twitch channels run anti-raid bots that auto-ban accounts matching raider patterns.
(Australia, informal, obsolete) A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
(video games, slang) Populated with bots .
Botted means: Populated with bots .. It is informal slang, fine in casual speech but not suited to formal contexts. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
botted means: Populated with bots .. Register: very informal, slang. Suitable only for casual conversation, chat and social media. Do not use in business, academic or news writing. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
“Genuinely questioned if most of these are botted”