BOT

In workplace and forum discussions, BOT likely stands for "back on topic." Someone who uses this acronym wants to push a discussion back toward its original topic, after a period of derailment.

For example, if your coworker starts a group chat about an important issue facing your company, and everyone else in the chat instead wants to discuss Lisa's new baby, your coworker might respond with "That's great, Lisa had a kid. Can we get BOT, plz?" This likely won't go over well with the rest of the group.

World of Warcraft (WoW) players use BoT to stand for "Bastion of Twilight." This entry-level raid was introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the game's third expansion.

BoT features five bosses and one optional heroic boss. The entrance is located at the top of the Twilight Citadel spire in the southwestern Twilight Highlands.

On some rare occasions, BOT might be short for "be on that." A gamer might tell you they'll BOT when you ask them to do something, or they might tell you they'll BOT when a new game or service is released. However, most gamers understand "bot" to mean either automated player characters or the bottom lane in League of Legends (LOL) and other MOBA-style games. Also, most non-gamers use the BOT acronym to mean "back on topic." So, you'll rarely see BOT used to mean "be on that."