Proper noun

1. A member of a fictional, primitive race of teddy-bear-like creatures that first appeared in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. They live on the forest moon of Endor.

Quotations

• 2005, Daniel H. Wilson, “How to Survive a Robot Uprising”, Bloomsbury, ISBN 1582345929, page 134

  Tripping a walker the size of a house is difficult but not impossible. You will need high-tensile wire and suitably grounded posts. Ask your Ewok friends for help.

• 2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22^nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”

  The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.