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dickovers

dickovers is the plural of dickover.

Meaning of dickover

Noun

dickover (plural dickovers)

  1. (Internet, vulgar) A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page presenting the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, and unavoidable interaction.
    • dickover n.: a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app...2026 May 29, John Gruber, “What Is a Dickover?”, in Daring Fireball

Questions about dickovers

What is dickovers the plural of?
Dickovers is the plural of dickover.

Words near dickovers in the dictionary

  1. dickologist
  2. dickologists
  3. dickology
  4. Dickon
  5. dickover
  6. dickovers
  7. dickpic
  8. dickpics
  9. dickprint
  10. dickprints
  11. dickridden

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