What is "prods"

Usage examples of "prods".

In each room one hundred three prods worked, inserting logic circuits in anything from electric toothbrushes to airborne, heat-seeking mini-bombs designed for law enforcement.

What Neil feared most, what most prods feared, was being thrown in among zealot workers.

They then chose the concatenation of prods to assemble the appropriate chips from the general AI library of MacroCode.

He decided that the rogue controller was a megalomaniac, some demented genius who trapped unsuspecting prods in his illegal designs.

Sahara Desert, Ptolemy Bent and fifteen of his faithful prods gathered around an antique ebony wood table.

Now, in addition to the button electrodes strapped to him, they used cattle prods and alligator clips.