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As promised, the best coined term in New Tales of Space and Time comes in the final story, "The Quest for Saint Aquin" by Anthony Boucher. Let me just quote from the story's introduction:

"In this picture of the San Francisco area a thousand years hence where robots and robasses (mechanical beasts of burden) serve the society of the future, Boucher presents a somewhat revolutionary concept to science fiction writing in general. But specifically, in our opinion, he has written one of the three or four best robot stories ever published."

You read that correctly: robasses.

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"It looked harmlessly like a woodpile sheltered against possible rain. Thomas pulled off the skins and contemplated the sleek functional lines of the robass. Smiling, he stowed his minimal gear into its panniers and climbed into the foam saddle."

If you can stop laughing every time the word "robass" is mentioned, you come to find that this is actually a pretty nice story. Plus the robass is a main character, it can talk, it plays the role of Satan, and it is mentioned about a million times.

Robass!