sockmaster
sockmaster noun: operator of sock puppets, alternative accounts, on the Internet.
Noun
sockmaster (plural sockmasters)
- Operator of sock puppets, alternative accounts, on the Internet.
- Also as you are decent sort of person, Secret ACF Agent, you will not immediately recognize some of the names the anon remailers usually generate (eg. George Orwell) and you may mix them up with names Dirtysox has created for his sockpuppets. That will lead to other sockmasters and take you away...2008 August 30, Sockpuppet reporter, “SOCKPUPPET INFO: bad news for Tiger”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet)
- >> Ignore fake nominations from twits forging FNVWs via albasani.[…]Hilarious that someone so lame as to need an army of socks assumes that others, especially those who regularly kick its ass, also need to use socks to "win" on Usenet. This particular Sockmaster is growing more pathetic by the day.2012 July 23, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, “Re: Ignore fake nominations from twits forging FNVWs via albasani.”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet)
- Synonyms:
- sock puppeteer
Examples of sockmaster in a sentence
- That will lead to other sockmasters and take you away from Dirtysox.2008 August 30, Sockpuppet reporter, “SOCKPUPPET INFO: bad news for Tiger”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):
- Can we hide the sockmaster here for awhile?^([sic])2012 September 2, ?, “Buried Alive!”, in alt.support.hospice (Usenet):
- Emir Arven has been blocked indefinitely from contributing to the English-language Wikipedia after being revealed as a disruptive sockmaster of a series of sockpuppets (Wikipedia, 2011a).2013, Richard Rogers, Digital Methods, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 229:
- And where the sockmaster is concerned, being exposed for employing socks is just gonna dig the hole deeper on the bias front.2014 June 20, Jim G., “Question for mpig.”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet):
Synonyms of sockmaster
Forms of sockmaster
| plural | sockmasters |
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Origin of sockmaster
From sock + master.
Questions about sockmaster
- What does sockmaster mean?
- Sockmaster means operator of sock puppets, alternative accounts, on the Internet.
- How do you use sockmaster in a sentence?
- That will lead to other sockmasters and take you away from Dirtysox.
- What part of speech is sockmaster?
- Sockmaster is a noun.
- What is the plural of sockmaster?
- The plural of sockmaster is sockmasters.
Words near sockmaster in the dictionary
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