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keyboard cowboys

keyboard cowboys is the plural of keyboard cowboy.

Meaning of keyboard cowboy

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.

Questions about keyboard cowboys

What is keyboard cowboys the plural of?
Keyboard cowboys is the plural of keyboard cowboy.

Words near keyboard cowboys in the dictionary

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

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