Wirehead
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 A hardware hacker.
- 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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