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neckbeard en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From neck + beard.

Meanings

  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.
    • 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:

Forms

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Deriveds

legbeard · neckbearded · neckbeardy

Relateds

fatbeard

Translations (5)

fi niskaparta (socially-inept, self-important male nerd) · de Nackenbart (beard style) · hi गलमुच्छा (beard style) · fi kaulaparta (beard style) · ja ネックベアード (beard style)