This page gathers the 2,010 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Internet” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 4 of 20: from “chatter” to “cringe culture”.
- chatter noun A user of livestream chat.
- checkout noun The process of confirming and paying for an online purchase.
- chee noun A cheetah.
- cheese verb To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
- cheese pizza noun Child pornography.
- cheese tax noun A portion of cheese given to a domestic animal such as a dog or cat, usually when the cheese is being brought out or prepared for human…
- chef verb To impress others.
- chef's kiss intj Used to express that something is exquisite.
- chicken jockey noun a moment during a specific movie scene in which some viewers will go berserk or act haywire, due to memetic or unexpected nature of the…
- chill girl noun A woman who thinks feminist identity politics are unimportant or unnecessary.
- chimpette noun A black female.
- chinkware noun Software created in China, regarded as being likely to maliciously surveil the user; Chinese spyware.
- chonk adj Adorably fat or large.
- chonk up verb To become fat or large, especially from overeating or overfeeding.
- chonker noun An obese cat.
- choose violence verb To disrespect or insult someone in a particularly audacious and unexpected manner.
- chop noun An IRC channel operator.
- chrome dome noun A robot or artificial intelligence.
- chromie noun A chromosome.
- chud noun A person who holds reactionary political views.
- chuddy adj Reactionary; ultraconservative; regressive; holding political views the speaker considers crude or offensive.
- chudmaxx verb To make oneself less physically appealing, either intentionally or unintentionally; to turn oneself into a chud.
- chungus noun Any tangible object or thing, especially one that is short and thick.
- churn verb To digest.
- cinema noun A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
- circle jerk noun An environment (especially an online community) in which people express or validate a narrow set of ideas and feelings.
- cissplain verb To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s…
- clanker noun A robot or artificial intelligence.
- classful adj Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.
- clay noun Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
- clean URL noun A web address or URL intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website, web application, or Web service by being immediately…
- clearnet adj Being the legitimate front of an illegal website.
- click farm noun A form of click fraud, where a large group of low-paid workers are hired to click on paid advertising links for the click fraudster.
- click fraud noun A type of fraud in which a computer program is used to simulate mouse clicks on advertisements, driving revenue to the advertiser, who is…
- click through noun The act or an instance of clicking through from one webpage to another.
- clickbait noun Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on…
- clicko noun The inadvertent depressing of a computer mouse button on a wrong selection.
- clip farm verb To act, or to produce or exploit a situation, with the goal of gaining online attention, especially repeatedly and/or inauthentically.
- clique noun A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
- cloak noun A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
- clogosphere noun The totality of bloggers advocating forms of pseudoscience, the paranormal, and conspiracy theories.
- cloud noun A white cat.
- cloud storage noun A model of computer data storage in which data, said to be in the cloud, is stored remotely in logical pools and is accessible to users…
- clout goblin noun Synonym of clout chaser (“a person who attempts to gain political or social power and influence, especially through association or conflict…
- clunge noun Vulva or vagina.
- co-citation noun The simultaneous linking to each of a group of webpages from each of another group of webpages, even though the members of the group do not…
- coal noun Content of low quality.
- cobweb noun A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
- cockfish verb To deceive others by using fake photos of one’s genitalia.
- cockhole noun A Ukrainian; khokhol.
- colophon noun A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author's name and the technologies used.
- commit sudoku verb To commit seppuku.
- community noun A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
- Community Note noun A comment, especially a fact check, left below a user's post on X using the Community Notes feature.
- concern troll noun Someone who posts to an Internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically…
- confessions page noun a social networking platform for posting anonymous confessions and secrets, especially in school and university communities
- connect up verb To join to a network or supply.
- consent or pay noun A tactic by which an online service or hospital gives the user or patient the choice of either paying full cost to use the service, or…
- Conservapedian noun A person who contributes to the wiki Conservapedia, and shares the site's fundamentalist Christian conservative views.
- consoomer noun Someone who displays extreme consumerism, especially slavish consumption of pop culture.
- conspiraboomer noun An older person, typically a member of the baby boomer generation, who believes in conspiracy theories.
- content noun The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- content farm noun A website that contains low-quality, search-engine optimized writing, which may be aggregated from elsewhere.
- conversational commerce noun E-commerce done via various means of conversation (live support on e-commerce web sites, online chat using messaging apps, chatbots on…
- coof noun COVID-19.
- cookie noun An HTTP cookie.
- cookie jar noun The storage space for browser cookies.
- cookie wall noun A barrier to viewing a website, requiring the user to agree to accept an HTTP cookie before proceeding.
- cookieless adj Without the use of HTTP cookies.
- cool arrow noun An asshole (especially in the context of a jocular phonetic reception by an American of a Hispanic saying the Spanish word culero, meaning…
- cool story bro intj Used to dismiss a comment perceived as boring or pointless, or refute an anecdote that one considers difficult to believe.
- cope intj A contemptuous dismissal, implying that someone should deal with some problem on their own and that the speaker will not engage any further.
- copium noun A metaphorical opiate taken in order to cope with a loss or disillusionment, often leading to one becoming detached from reality and in…
- copypasta noun A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme.
- copyright troll noun A copyright holder, or agent working on their behalf, who participates in torrents in order to note down and report those unlawfully…
- copystrike noun A formal notice to a user on a website (particularly YouTube or other video-sharing site) reprimanding the user for copyright infringement.
- corn noun pornography; porn
- cornball noun A corny person; an uncool, stupid, or lame person.
- corncob verb To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
- corpse camp verb To wait by a player's corpse to target them when they respawn, or when, after respawning elsewhere, they return to reclaim their equipment…
- corpse camper noun A player who camps specifically next to the enemy's corpse (or, by the closest graveyard) with the purpose of continuously eliminating that…
- corpse run verb To navigate one's player character back to the site of one's prior death in order to resurrect oneself and reclaim lost items.
- cortisol noun Stress.
- costream verb To stream an audiovisual broadcast from another content creator, adding one's own commentary over the top.
- counter noun A hit counter.
- countertroll noun Someone who trolls in response to an original troll.
- courier noun A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.
- courtesy copy noun A copy of an email sent to a person other than the main recipient, to keep them informed.
- cow tipping noun The practice of drawing the attention of a lolcow to the fact that they are being mocked.
- coworker noun A person in the lowest common denominator, especially regarding popular culture.
- coworker music noun A type of music that is lowbrow, popular, generic, mainstream, formulaic, and often inoffensive or boring; pop music.
- crabcore noun The supposed musical genre of metalcore (especially electronicore) guitarists who adopt a low squatting pose with spread legs.
- crack noun Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- crano noun A person who is hyper-fixated on the welfare of others and desperately wants to fix their problems, but feels completely helpless…
- crapflood verb To send large amounts of worthless text in an online community.
- crapification noun The phenomenon of online platforms and other digital services gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting…
- crash out noun A reckless individual, often with nothing to lose; a person prone to crashing out.
- crawl verb To visit (files or web sites) in order to index them for searching.
- crawler noun A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
- cringe culture noun An online culture based around criticizing people for interests or beliefs that are harmless but considered cringeworthy.