wirehead
nounEtymology From wire + -head.
1
Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction 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
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A hardware hacker.
3
A person who likes to tinker with electronics.
- Derived terms
- wireheading