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newsgroupie

newsgroupie noun: a user of Internet newsgroups; a newsgrouper.

Noun

newsgroupie (plural newsgroupies)

  1. (Internet, slang) A user of Internet newsgroups; a newsgrouper.
    • Hey..I was curious...isn't there a pic of a lot of you newsgroupies out there somewhere?? I'm always curious what some of you people look like. :)1999 March 27, AmyGrantfn, “Pic of Newsgroupies?”, in rec.music.artists.amy-grant (Usenet)

Forms of newsgroupie

pluralnewsgroupies

Origin of newsgroupie

From newsgroup + -ie, influenced by groupie.

Questions about newsgroupie

What does newsgroupie mean?
Newsgroupie means a user of Internet newsgroups; a newsgrouper.
What part of speech is newsgroupie?
Newsgroupie is a noun.
What is the plural of newsgroupie?
The plural of newsgroupie is newsgroupies.

Words near newsgroupie in the dictionary

  1. newsgirl
  2. newsgirls
  3. newsgroup
  4. newsgrouper
  5. newsgroupers
  6. newsgroupie
  7. newsgroupies
  8. newsgroups
  9. Newsham
  10. Newsham with Breckenbrough
  11. newshand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newsgroupie (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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