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wireheads

wireheads is the plural of wirehead.

wireheads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wirehead.

Meaning of wirehead

Noun

wirehead (plural wireheads)

  1. 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
  2. A person who takes part in wireheading.
  3. (broadly) A hardware hacker.
  4. (broadly) A person who likes to tinker with electronics.

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Questions about wireheads

What is wireheads the plural of?
Wireheads is the plural of wirehead.

Words near wireheads in the dictionary

  1. Wirehaired Vizslas
  2. wirehairs
  3. wirehead
  4. wireheaded
  5. wireheading
  6. wireheads
  7. wirehouse
  8. wirehouses
  9. wirelength
  10. wirelengths
  11. wireless

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