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Wavoid en · NOUN

Etymology

From wave + -oid.

Meanings

1. (informal) A person who believes (often fervently) that Wave Systems Corp. will be a financial success.
   • Joe Trippi--username "random1"--was also a Wavoid. 2003 November 17, Noam Scheiber, “Organization Man: Joe Trippi Reinvents Campaigning”, in The New Republic:
   • At the height of the technology bubble, Wave Systems attracted a devoted throng of investors from across the country who called themselves Wavoids. 2004 August 14, Danny Hakim, “For a Reformed Wavoid, The Play's the Thing”, in The New York Times:
   • The Wavoids and Raging Bull's WAVX board are at the frontier of a still-evolving manifestation of modern investing life: the financial message board. 2000 February 28, Danny Hakim, “Who Wants to Marry a Wavoid Multimillionaire?”, in SmartMoney:
   • He created WAVX 101, an online "course" for fledgling Wavoids that is quite literally the book on Wave. 1999 December 13, Danny Hakim, “Catching the Wave”, in SmartMoney:
   • The Wavoids say they believe that Wave’s moment has finally come — of course, they have always believed that Wave’s moment has finally come. 2007 March 4, Danny Hakim, “That Ship Will Come In, Right?”, in The New York Times:
   • Through the boom and bust, when Wave's stock sold for $50 a share and when it sold for less than a buck, when the company was delisted from the Nasdaq in 1997 and then reinstated in 1999, the Wavoids have been predicting that Wave will be bigger than Intel, AOL, or Yahoo -- and searching for clues that Wave's software is about to become the gold standard of trusted computing, an indispensable part of the 150 million PCs shipped yearly. 2004 June 14, Scott Kirsner, “After 16 years of struggle, Wave awaits its big break”, in The Boston Globe:

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