wirehead
wirehead noun: a person who has an electronic brain implant.
Noun
wirehead (plural wireheads)
- A person who has an electronic brain implant.
- He turns around and looks behind him. The wirehead he saw a few seconds ago is out in the open now, standing all by himself at the edge of a raft. Everyone else has cleared out of there.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 385
- A person who takes part in wireheading.
- A hardware hacker.
- A person who likes to tinker with electronics.
Verb
wirehead (third-person singular simple present wireheads, present participle wireheading, simple past and past participle wireheaded)
- To artificially stimulate the brain to experience pleasure.
- To hack one's own reward channel.
wirehead meaning in Bengali
wirehead in Bengali
- একজন হার্ডওয়্যার হ্যাকার
Forms of wirehead
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wireheads |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wireheads |
| present participle | wireheading |
| past participle | wireheaded |
| past | wireheaded |
Origin of wirehead
From wire + -head.
Words formed from wirehead
Questions about wirehead
- What does wirehead mean?
- Wirehead means a person who has an electronic brain implant.
- What is wirehead in Bengali?
- Wirehead in Bengali is একজন হার্ডওয়্যার হ্যাকার. See Wirehead meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is wirehead?
- Wirehead can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of wirehead?
- The plural of wirehead is wireheads.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wirehead (page history and authors); wirehead (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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