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sysop

/ˈsɪsˌɒp/

sysop noun: a system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.

Noun (1)

sysop (plural sysops)

  1. (Internet) A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.
  2. (wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An administrator on a wiki.

Verb

sysop (third-person singular simple present sysops, present participle sysopping, simple past and past participle sysopped)

  1. (intransitive) To work as a sysop.
    • Another major chunk of time goes into computer work - entering the data which is dumped on my desk at irregular intervals by the other IPM programs, tidying up the database, and sysopping on our micro-based bulletin board system.1977, Henry Torsey Fernald, Fernald Club Yearbook, numbers 46-55, page 28
  2. (rare, transitive) To grant someone sysop privileges.

Noun (2) capitalized: SYSOP

SYSOP (plural SYSOPs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of sysop.

Synonyms of sysop

Forms of sysop

Noun
pluralsysops
pluralSYSOPs
Verb
third-person singular presentsysops
present participlesysopping
past participlesysopped
pastsysopped

Origin of sysop

Blend of system + operator.

Words formed from sysop

Questions about sysop

What does sysop mean?
Sysop means a system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.
What part of speech is sysop?
Sysop can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sysop?
Sysop is pronounced /ˈsɪsˌɒp/.
What is the plural of sysop?
The plural of sysop is sysops.

Words near sysop in the dictionary

  1. sysmedicalist
  2. sysmedicalists
  3. sysmeds
  4. sysML
  5. Sysmä
  6. sysop
  7. sysophood
  8. sysopped
  9. sysopping
  10. sysops
  11. sysphobe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sysop (page history and authors); SYSOP (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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