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glasshole

glasshole noun: a person who wears spectacle frames equipped with PDAs (especially with cameras) that display into the user's eyes, and who acts like a jerk or films inappropriately.

Noun

glasshole (plural glassholes)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A person who wears spectacle frames equipped with PDAs (especially with cameras) that display into the user's eyes, and who acts like a jerk or films inappropriately.
    • Put another way, there could be a lot of “Glassholes” out there.2013, Molly Klinefelter, Don’t Be a Google Glasshole: 10 Etiquette Tips, Laptop Magazine
    • No one likes a Glasshole because they are usually unpredictable in their actions.2014, Vamien McKalin, Hate Glassholes? Now you can jam their Wi-Fi connection and expose them, TechTimes

Examples of glasshole in a sentence

  • […] and create a technology you wear like glasses—without looking like a glasshole […]2015, Rob Enderle, How the Windows Phone Could Rise Up and Dominate, Tech News World:
  • The company’s “glassholes” probably put the field back by half a decade, as a status symbol inside tech became a red flag to passersby outside it.2023 June 6, Alex Hern, “TechScape: Is Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro more than just another tech toy for the rich?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms of glasshole

pluralglassholes
alternative formglass-hole
alternative formGlass-hole
alternative formGlasshole

Origin of glasshole

Blend of glasses (“specs”) + asshole. From the behavior of Google Glass users, and similar spec-based camera-equipped PDAs with eye displays.

Questions about glasshole

What does glasshole mean?
Glasshole means a person who wears spectacle frames equipped with PDAs (especially with cameras) that display into the user's eyes, and who acts like a jerk or films inappropriately.
How do you use glasshole in a sentence?
[…] and create a technology you wear like glasses—without looking like a glasshole […]
What part of speech is glasshole?
Glasshole is a noun.
What is the plural of glasshole?
The plural of glasshole is glassholes.

Words near glasshole in the dictionary

  1. glassformers
  2. glassfrog
  3. glassfrogs
  4. glassful
  5. glassfuls
  6. glasshole
  7. glassholes
  8. glasshouse
  9. glasshouses
  10. glassichord
  11. glassichords

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