Alternative forms

• Nethead

Etymology

From net +‎ -headCategory:English terms suffixed with -head#NETHEAD.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#NETHEAD

Noun

nethead (plural netheads)Category:English lemmas#NETHEADCategory:English nouns#NETHEADCategory:English countable nouns#NETHEADCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NETHEADCategory:Pages with entries#NETHEADCategory:Pages with 1 entry#NETHEAD

1. (slangCategory:English slang#NETHEAD) An obsessive Internet user.
   • 1995, Jessie Cameron Herz, Surfing on the Internet: a nethead's adventure on-line:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
   • 1998, Kimberly S. Young, Caught in the net, page 175:

     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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#NETHEAD

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2. (slangCategory:English slang#NETHEAD) 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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