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webhead

webhead noun: an avid user of the World Wide Web.

Noun

webhead (plural webheads)

  1. (slang) An avid user of the World Wide Web.
    • He and Gitanas went to a pub called Prie Universiteto and hired five young Lithuanians in Phish and R.E.M. T-shirts for thirty dollars a day plus millions of worthless stock options, and for a month Chip rode these slang-slinging Webheads mercilessly. He made them study American sites like nbci.com...2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
    • To them, just being a webhead or computer geek is not enough. The culture has its own subsections […]2005, Leanne Newson, Jules Aldous, The Legal Maze: VCE Units 1 and 2, page 445

Forms of webhead

pluralwebheads

Origin of webhead

From Web + -head.

Questions about webhead

What does webhead mean?
Webhead means an avid user of the World Wide Web.
What part of speech is webhead?
Webhead is a noun.
What is the plural of webhead?
The plural of webhead is webheads.

Words near webhead in the dictionary

  1. webgames
  2. webgraph
  3. webgraphs
  4. webguide
  5. webguides
  6. webhead
  7. webheads
  8. webhook
  9. webhooks
  10. webhost
  11. webhosting

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