An endearing
term for a
graduate student, usually going for a
Piled High and Deeper, who has been
conned into "
helping" their
advisor by lecturing "a
few" sessions of a class, without really knowing what they're talking about, and so end up either going by their advisor's shitty
lecture notes or rambling about their
thesis for three
hours a week.
Thankfully, at my university's CS department there's only one or two professors who engage in such lectroid abuse, but given the size of the department that amounts to a good 8-10%. At least they keep it to a minimum, though when I took CS272 I actually thought the lectroid was the professor. (Incidentally, this professor is also probably the worst culprit of research assistant abuse in other areas as well.)