Romulan
English
Etymology
From the Star Trek franchise; Romulus + -an.
Noun
Romulan (plural Romulans)
- A member of a fictional alien race, described as being cunning and opportunistic.
- 1999, Peter Allen David, Double or Nothing:
- "Some sort of Romulan game," Riker said thoughtfully. "Trying to make us guess what they're up to."
- 2000, Emma Forrest, Namedropper:
- "He looks like a Romulan." Suddenly, her attention is focused on him and she calls across the street, "Hey, monkey Romulan, sort it out!"
- 2001, Michael W McConnell, Robert F Cochran, Angela C Carmella, Christian perspectives on legal thought
- ...the law vaporizes like a Romulan warrior into the ions of space.
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Anagrams
- unmoral