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netheads

netheads is the plural of nethead.

Meaning of nethead

Noun

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 capitalized: Netheads

Netheads

  1. (plural) plural of Nethead

Questions about netheads

What is netheads the plural of?
Netheads is the plural of nethead.
What part of speech is netheads?
Netheads is a noun.

Words near netheads in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: netheads (page history and authors); Netheads (page history and authors); nethead (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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