keyboard cowboy
keyboard cowboy · keyboard cowboys
A person who runs a .com company, or someone who was around during the dot-com bubbleA person who runs a .com company, or someone who was around during the dot-com bubble.
Meaning
3 senses(Internet)A person who runs a .com company, or someone who was around during the dot-com bubble.
(Internet, derogatory)A hacker. (popularized in the 1995 movie Hackers)
(Internet, derogatory)A person who posts inflammatory remarks from behind the anonymity of an online username; a keyboard warrior.
Forms
plural: keyboard cowboys| Singular | keyboard cowboy |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.