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megahype

megahype noun: extreme hype.

Noun

megahype (uncountable)

  1. Extreme hype.
    • When we look for signs of what awaits us in cyberspace, we realize that what we have already got, in addition to mountains of undigested facts, is megahype, the vastly optimistic exaggeration about the power and wizardry of computers.2004, Marshall William Fishwick, Probing popular culture on and off the Internet, page 179

Origin of megahype

From mega- + hype.

Questions about megahype

What does megahype mean?
Megahype means extreme hype.
What part of speech is megahype?
Megahype is a noun.

Words near megahype in the dictionary

  1. megahospitals
  2. megahotel
  3. megahotels
  4. megahurt
  5. megahurts
  6. megahype
  7. megaichnofauna
  8. megaindustrial
  9. megaindustries
  10. megaindustry
  11. megainfluencer

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