netcop
netcop noun: a user who attempts to enforce netiquette or other standards, especially on Usenet.
Noun
netcop (plural netcops)
- A user who attempts to enforce netiquette or other standards, especially on Usenet.
- Isn't the infamous "netcop" post that gets reposted here weekly your justification for continuing the discussion on news.admin, due to your interpretation of news.admin's charter?1992 March 29, John Henders, “His friend and nobody else's, John Palmer!”, in alt.flame (Usenet)
Verb
netcop (third-person singular simple present netcops, present participle netcopping, simple past and past participle netcopped)
- To call out, criticize or complain about (someone or something), especially when attempting to enforce netiquette or other standards, especially on Usenet.
- So I just skip over them, rather than netcopping every time I don't like the content. Any thread with 'jealousy' in the title doesn't even get a look, but perhaps I should start netcopping about how that has been done to death here, and I didn't even find it interesting or relevant to me the first...1993 June 29, Brad Shapcott, “Age Of Consent”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet)
- But what's the reason for netcopping this shit at all? What pisses you off about these posts? Spare me the bandwidth shibboleth (should we mod usenet as a whole? Then Who giveth bandwidth and who taketh it away?). I don't think you want to make a 'whataboutthechildren' type arguments either.1994 February 13, Sourcerer, “Beat on the Brats”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet)
- Synonyms:
- cybercop
Examples of netcop in a sentence
- So I just skip over them, rather than netcopping every time I don't like the content.1993 June 29, Brad Shapcott, “Age Of Consent”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):
- Mark, That Ken Ehrett was netcopped twice by yours truely, both as Ned Kelly and Insectus Pentius.1996 December 13, Insectus Pentius, “Book- ADD: A Different Perception...”, in alt.support.attn-deficit (Usenet):
- When it comes to calling Mexicans "Wetbacks" and calling people with an illness "Dick Suckers", your damn right I will netcop you.2001 October 6, Ron, “Ronny the hypocrite changes his tune”, in alt.consumers.free-stuff (Usenet):
- I can't believe you netcopped him for that.2002 May 17, endus, “Is hockey stop possible on asphalt”, in rec.sport.skating.inline (Usenet):
Synonyms of netcop
Forms of netcop
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | netcops |
| alternative form | net.cop |
| alternative form | net-cop |
| alternative form | net cop |
| alternative form | NetCop |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | netcops |
| present participle | netcopping |
| past participle | netcopped |
| past | netcopped |
Origin of netcop
From net + cop.
Words formed from netcop
Questions about netcop
- What does netcop mean?
- Netcop means a user who attempts to enforce netiquette or other standards, especially on Usenet.
- How do you use netcop in a sentence?
- So I just skip over them, rather than netcopping every time I don't like the content.
- What part of speech is netcop?
- Netcop can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of netcop?
- The plural of netcop is netcops.
Words near netcop in the dictionary
Source and license
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