According to chatter on Reddit, “foid” is the words “female” and “android” smashed together into one. Short for “femoid,” the term is used to imply that women are less than human.

Investigators said the women's clothing that he was wearing may have helped him conceal it, but they're still hammering out those details. The suspect spent his freshman year at Highland Park High ...

Robert Crimo’s FOID card renewed in 2021, which was done this time without the assistance of his father since the by then he was 21, the legal age to apply for the permit.