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wikilawyer

wikilawyer noun: someone who engages in legalistic arguments on a wiki.

Noun

wikilawyer (plural wikilawyers)

  1. Someone who engages in legalistic arguments on a wiki.

Verb

wikilawyer (third-person singular simple present wikilawyers, present participle wikilawyering, simple past and past participle wikilawyered)

  1. To engage in legalistic arguments on a wiki.

Forms of wikilawyer

Noun
pluralwikilawyers
Verb
third-person singular presentwikilawyers
present participlewikilawyering
past participlewikilawyered
pastwikilawyered

Origin of wikilawyer

From wiki + lawyer.

Questions about wikilawyer

What does wikilawyer mean?
Wikilawyer means someone who engages in legalistic arguments on a wiki.
What part of speech is wikilawyer?
Wikilawyer can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of wikilawyer?
The plural of wikilawyer is wikilawyers.

Words near wikilawyer in the dictionary

  1. Wikigroaning
  2. wikiholic
  3. wikiholics
  4. wikiholism
  5. wikiing
  6. wikilawyer
  7. wikilawyered
  8. wikilawyering
  9. wikilawyers
  10. wikiless
  11. wikilike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wikilawyer (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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