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lazyweb

lazyweb proper noun: the Internet, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.

Proper noun (1)

lazyweb

  1. (Internet, humorous, informal) The Internet, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.
    • Victor proves the first rule of the lazy-web ("if you wait long enough, someone will write/build/design what you were thinking about")[…]2002 June 11, Matt Jones, “Make me think.”, in blackbeltjones.com, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2002
    • Some might want a little widget for their weblog that does something cool. Talk about it online for a bit—through the magical power of the LazyWeb—and they may well get it.2003 January 16, Ben Hammersley, “Web-sharing the lazy way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Proper noun (2) capitalized: LazyWeb

LazyWeb

  1. Alternative letter-case form of lazyweb.
    • Some might want a little widget for their weblog that does something cool. Talk about it online for a bit—through the magical power of the LazyWeb—and they may well get it.2003 January 16, Ben Hammersley, “Web-sharing the lazy way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • There was another point of danah’s I wanted to respond to, but yesterday’s post had gotten quite long enough, and in any case, I had a slightly different take in mind for this, including a LazyWeb request at the end, relating to this image:[…] It's damn slow, and should in any case be either a...2005 January 6, Clay Shirky, “Wikipedia: The nature of authority, and a LazyWeb request…”, in Corante, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2020

Examples of lazyweb in a sentence

  • If the phrase doesn't exist, you can offer a definition, or it asks the ‘lazyweb’ for one by tweeting it.2011, Tim Phillips, Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 175:
  • The lazyweb hashtag is rarely used anymore—it peaked in 2008 and has been declining with increasing rapidity over time—but people still turn to Twitter when they want to outsource a question.2011 July 7, Nicholas Jackson, “Infographic: Twitter, Lazyweb Expose the Limits of Google”, in The Atlantic:
  • For instance, a lazyweb request on Twitter is likely to be successful if the requester has either responded previously to such requests […].2011, Martin Weller, The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

Forms of lazyweb

alternative formLazyWeb

Origin of lazyweb

From lazy + Web, coined by British designer and co-founder of Dopplr Matt Jones in 2002, and later popularized as a hashtag added to questions on Twitter, peaking around 2008.

Questions about lazyweb

What does lazyweb mean?
Lazyweb means the Internet, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.
How do you use lazyweb in a sentence?
If the phrase doesn't exist, you can offer a definition, or it asks the ‘lazyweb’ for one by tweeting it.
What part of speech is lazyweb?
Lazyweb is a proper noun.

Words near lazyweb in the dictionary

  1. lazyjacks
  2. lazyload
  3. lazyloaded
  4. lazyloading
  5. lazyloads
  6. lazyweb
  7. Lazzara
  8. Lazzaras
  9. lazzaretto
  10. lazzarettos
  11. Lazzari

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lazyweb (page history and authors); LazyWeb (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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