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Onionland

Onionland proper noun: those portions of the Internet accessible via onion routing.

Proper noun

Onionland

  1. (Internet) Those portions of the Internet accessible via onion routing.
    • Opening his laptop, he went over all of her sister's details: her contacts in the anonymous Tor Onionland where ip addresses were ghosts, and yet had managed to trace her using a simple javascript exploit.2014, Mark Nichols, Darknet: Encrypted Ocean
    • From a cultural perspective, phenomena such as Tor software that helps navigate Onionland will inevitably affect our sense of how threatening cyberweapons can be. Onionland is a sort of Old West Robber's Roost in the virtual landscape […]2015, Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, Kevin Govern, Cyber War: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts, page 22

Origin of Onionland

From onion + -land.

Questions about Onionland

What does Onionland mean?
Onionland means those portions of the Internet accessible via onion routing.
What part of speech is Onionland?
Onionland is a proper noun.

Words near Onionland in the dictionary

  1. onionier
  2. onioniest
  3. onionin A
  4. onioniness
  5. onionized
  6. Onionland
  7. onionless
  8. onionlike
  9. onions
  10. onionseed
  11. onionseeds

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