tech bro
US/ˈtɛk.bɹoʊ̯/
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British/ˈtɛkbɹəw/
tech bro noun: a hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.
Noun
tech bro (plural tech bros)
- A hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.
- Fort Mason, a renovated military post on the bay, has been nicknamed “Frat Mason” for the 20-something “tech bros” — tech company salespeople, marketing employees and start-up founders — who have moved into luxury apartments there and play bocce on the great lawn.2013 November 24, Erica Goode, Claire Cain Miller, “Backlash by the Bay”, in New York Times
- “U.S.S. Callister” inverts this idea by having its tech-bro channel his resentment into fashioning his own personal matrix.2017 December 30, James Poniewozik, “Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Examples of tech bro in a sentence
- Are Tech Bros, as one Redditor claimed, members of a “hyper technocratic, libertarian…boys club”?2019 October, James Ross Gardner, “Who will mourn the tech bro?”, in Seattle Met:
- If tech bros are everywhere, then they are nowhere.2021 January 27, Gilad Edelman, “Stop calling everyone a tech bro”, in Wired:
Forms of tech bro
| plural | tech bros |
|---|---|
| alternative form | tech-bro |
| alternative form | techbro |
Origin of tech bro
From tech + bro (“a frat boy or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture”). Attested from the 2010s (see quotations below).
Questions about tech bro
- What does tech bro mean?
- Tech bro means a hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.
- How do you use tech bro in a sentence?
- Are Tech Bros, as one Redditor claimed, members of a “hyper technocratic, libertarian…boys club”?
- What part of speech is tech bro?
- Tech bro is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tech bro?
- Tech bro is pronounced /ˈtɛk.bɹoʊ̯/ (US).
- What is the plural of tech bro?
- The plural of tech bro is tech bros.
Words near tech bro in the dictionary
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