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keyboard cowboy

keyboard cowboy noun: a person who runs a .com company, or someone who was around during the dot-com bubble.

Noun

keyboard cowboy (plural keyboard cowboys)

  1. (Internet) A person who runs a .com company, or someone who was around during the dot-com bubble.
  2. (Internet, derogatory) A hacker. (popularized in the 1995 movie Hackers)
  3. (Internet, derogatory) A person who posts inflammatory remarks from behind the anonymity of an online username; a keyboard warrior.

Forms of keyboard cowboy

pluralkeyboard cowboys

Questions about keyboard cowboy

What does keyboard cowboy mean?
Keyboard cowboy means a person who runs a .com company, or someone who was around during the dot-com bubble.
What part of speech is keyboard cowboy?
Keyboard cowboy is a noun.
What is the plural of keyboard cowboy?
The plural of keyboard cowboy is keyboard cowboys.

Words near keyboard cowboy in the dictionary

  1. keyboard
  2. keyboard armies
  3. keyboard army
  4. keyboard bass
  5. keyboard basses
  6. keyboard cowboy
  7. keyboard cowboys
  8. keyboard diarrhea
  9. keyboard distance
  10. keyboard distances
  11. keyboard glockenspiel

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