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interweb

/ˈɪntəˌwɛb/

interweb noun: the Internet.

Noun

interweb (plural interwebs or interwebz)

  1. (Internet, humorous, in plural, often) The Internet.
    • "Web Hopper" is an interweb site that enables you to visualize your Web hopping and that of other Net users.1997, Christian Schenck, Christine Schopf, editors, Cyberarts, →ISBN, page 70
    • Basically anyone who wants to get a license for nefarious purposes, nefarious or at the very least […] unsactioned, they now get to shop around. […] With the interwebs, it's gonna be pretty easy to tell which states […] are the best shopping locations.2007 March 26, Phil Libin, Jon Udell (interviewer), “Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators: Phil Libin”, in IT Conversations, GigaVox Media, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2013
    Synonyms:
    Intertubes

Examples of interweb in a sentence

  • They said I was a fucking psycho / But look at me now, all up in the interweb, world wide2010, “Enter The Ninja”, performed by Die Antwoord:
  • Very little exists in the annals of the interwebs about Tostitos Hint of Lime.2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian:

Synonyms of interweb

Forms of interweb

pluralinterwebs
pluralinterwebz
alternative formintarweb
alternative formInterweb

Origin of interweb

Blend of Internet + web (“World Wide Web”). The first use of this phrase is disputed.

Questions about interweb

What does interweb mean?
Interweb means the Internet.
How do you use interweb in a sentence?
They said I was a fucking psycho / But look at me now, all up in the interweb, world wide
What part of speech is interweb?
Interweb is a noun.
How do you pronounce interweb?
Interweb is pronounced /ˈɪntəˌwɛb/.
What is the plural of interweb?
The plural of interweb is interwebs.

Words near interweb in the dictionary

  1. interweavers
  2. interweaves
  3. interweaving
  4. interweavingly
  5. interweavings
  6. interweb
  7. interwebs
  8. interwebz
  9. interwed
  10. interwedded
  11. interwedding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: interweb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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