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/b/tard

/b/tard noun: a habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.

Noun

/b/tard (plural /b/tards)

  1. (Internet, 4chan slang) A habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.
    • not to sound insulting, but are you a /b/tard by any chance?2006 July 1, nikolai kingsley, rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <4gmmmbF1n9jlsU1@individual.net>
    • Poole’s efforts to rein in some of the chaos earned him scorn not just from the /b/tards but also from the largest collective of wired rebels in the world, Anonymous, which had first coalesced on 4chan around 2006 as a kind of inside joke (“Anonymous” is the default handle on 4chan).2015 March 13, David Kushner, “4chan’s Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away”, in Rolling Stone
    Synonyms:
    /b/ro

Synonyms of /b/tard

Forms of /b/tard

plural/b/tards
alternative formb-tard

Origin of /b/tard

From /b/ - Random, an imageboard on 4chan. It combines a humorously censored version of bastard with /b/, while rhyming with retard. /b/ itself derives its name from the Futaba Channel (2chan) equivalent.

Questions about /b/tard

What does /b/tard mean?
/b/tard means a habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.
What part of speech is /b/tard?
/b/tard is a noun.
What is the plural of /b/tard?
The plural of /b/tard is /b/tards.

Words near /b/tard in the dictionary

  1. .ovls
  2. /a
  3. /ay
  4. /b/ro
  5. /b/ros
  6. /b/tard
  7. /b/tards
  8. /d/egenerate
  9. /d/egenerates
  10. /dev/null
  11. /end rant

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