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XEROID. A person who works for Xerox Corporation. Xerox employees refer to themselves as Xeroids, implying that they are like robots.
“They were stymied by ‘Xeroids’—veterans of the hugely successful electro-mechanical copier business who saw electronics as more threat than opportunity.” (Business Week, Feb. 13, 1989, p. 92)