neckbeard
nounEtymology From neck + beard.
1
A style of facial hair wherein the beard is allowed to grow down the chin and is trimmed to an even length over the entirety of the face.
2
Derogatory, Slang A socially-inept, male nerd, typically characterized as unkempt and misogynistic.
- Many front-end web developers may not have implemented a web service before, leaving that boring stuff to the neckbeards and the sysadmins.2011, Andrew Lunny, PhoneGap Beginner's Guide:
- Derived terms
- legbeard, neckbearded, neckbeardy
- Related terms
- fatbeard