Wirehead

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    A hardware hacker.
  3. 3
    A person who likes to tinker with electronics.

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From wire + -head.

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