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nethead en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From net + -head.

Meanings

1. (slang) An obsessive Internet user.
   • This is, after all, a gathering of a typical fraternity of netheads, those Internet-obsessed students who every night fill the large computer labs sprinkled throughout campus. 1998, Kimberly S. Young, Caught in the net, page 175:
2. (slang) A supporter of the Internet and its flexibility and technical underpinnings, contrasted with Bellhead (a supporter of traditional centralized telecommunications networks).

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