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Definition of webspeak
webspeak
noun
- the words and phrases that are (mostly) unique to communication on the world wide web. (LOL, ROFL, fail, win, etc.)
Citation from "Epic Win", Slate, Christopher Beam, Oct 15 2008 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Apr 14 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Apr 14 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: "what about you". | |
| Definitions include: a small piece of a design that doesn't work as well as the rest of the design. | |
| Definitions include: an arm that has become sore, cramped, and / or muscular due to extended use of touch screens on computing devices. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "just out of curiosity". | |
| Definitions include: to stare at. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "happy new year". | |
| Definitions include: a person who downloads without uploading in return. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "good game." | |
| Definitions include: shareware that uses guilt to encourage users to pay the "registration" cost. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "can anyone else". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "laughing my fucking ass off". | |
| Definitions include: source code that is extremely difficult to understand. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "What are you doing?" | |
| Definitions include: a Twitter user. | |
| Definitions include: "okay, thanks, bye." | |
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Other terms relating to 'speak': | |
| Definitions include: speech commonly found in corporations, often filled with buzzwords, jargon, and "verbed" nouns. | |
| Definitions include: technical language. | |
| Definitions include: a form of chat writing in which letters are replaced with similar-looking numbers and punctuation. | |
| Definitions include: a variant of written language that replaces letters with similar looking numbers or symbols, or similar sounding letter combinations. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: said when a person who was recently being discussed appears. | |
| Definitions include: to be able to use the terminology used in a particular line of work, field of business, field of study, etc. | |
| Definitions include: to have the same beliefs. | |
Other terms relating to 'web': | |
| Definitions include: a person who is famous due to their world-wide web presence. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "search the fucking web". | |
| Definitions include: a seminar conducted over the web. | |
| Definitions include: a (usually short) episode of a television program available via the web. | |
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