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meat-space

meat-space is the alternative form of meatspace.

Meaning of meatspace

Noun

meatspace (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, derogatory, idiomatic, sometimes) The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
    • In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace.1998, Josephine Berry, “What is to be screened – Net utopians and their discontents”, in Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, number 0, pages 66–73
    Antonyms:
    cyberspace

Questions about meat-space

What is meat-space the alternative form of?
Meat-space is the alternative form of meatspace.

Words near meat-space in the dictionary

  1. meat-pies
  2. meat-safe
  3. meat-safe cot
  4. meat-safe cots
  5. meat-safes
  6. meat-space
  7. meat-wagon
  8. meat-wagons
  9. meatal
  10. meatarian
  11. meatarians

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