webhead

noun

webhead

noun

Etymology From Web + -head.

1

Slang An avid user of the World Wide Web.

  • He and Gitanas went to a pub called Prie Universiteto and hired five young Lithuanians in Phish and R.E.M. T-shirts for thirty dollars a day plus millions of worthless stock options, and for a month Chip rode these slang-slinging Webheads mercilessly. He made them study American sites like nbci.com and Oracle. He told them to do it like this, to make it look like this.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
  • To them, just being a webhead or computer geek is not enough. The culture has its own subsections […]2005, Leanne Newson, Jules Aldous, The Legal Maze: VCE Units 1 and 2, page 445:

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