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nethead

nethead noun: an obsessive Internet user.

Noun (1)

nethead (plural netheads)

  1. (slang) An obsessive Internet user.
    • This is, after all, a gathering of a typical fraternity of netheads, those Internet-obsessed students who every night fill the large computer labs sprinkled throughout campus.1998, Kimberly S. Young, Caught in the net, page 175
  2. (slang) A supporter of the Internet and its flexibility and technical underpinnings, contrasted with Bellhead (a supporter of traditional centralized telecommunications networks).

Noun (2) capitalized: Nethead

Nethead (plural Netheads)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of nethead.
    • To see why Al “My Way Is the Highway” Gore and 50,000 other Netheads from across the country have dialed into Monta Vista this year, point your web-browser to http:1994 September 20, David Plotnikoff, “The fall invasion of neophytes plagues Usenet veterans”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 111, number 58, page 4D
    • “So we’re going to an Internet café …” said Rosina, as the two nurses stood in the queue for the 105 bus. “That’s right. We go and use the computers, and we can eat and drink while you’re doing it. And meet other Netheads, too, if we want to.” “Netheads?” “Freaks. People like us.”2000, Christopher West, The Third Messiah, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Minotaur, →ISBN, pages 84–85

Forms of nethead

pluralnetheads
alternative formNethead
pluralNetheads

Origin of nethead

From net + -head.

Questions about nethead

What does nethead mean?
Nethead means an obsessive Internet user.
What part of speech is nethead?
Nethead is a noun.
What is the plural of nethead?
The plural of nethead is netheads.

Words near nethead in the dictionary

  1. netguns
  2. Neth
  3. Neth.
  4. Nethalp
  5. Nethaniah
  6. nethead
  7. netheads
  8. netheless
  9. nethelesse
  10. nether
  11. Nether Alderley

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