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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Internethahn

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ɪntɐnɛtˌhahn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Webhead/ˈwɛbˌhɛd/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Als echter Webhead verbringt er jede freie Minute im Internet."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An enthusiastic and knowledgeable user of the World Wide Web or a computer network.

    "As an absolute webhead, she spends hours designing custom websites and exploring obscure internet archives."
  2. 2

    A dedicated fan of the fictional superhero Spider-Man.

    "The comic book convention was packed with webheads dressed in red and blue spandex."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'web' (referring to the World Wide Web or a spider's web) and 'head' (slang suffix for an enthusiastic devotee or expert). The term originally emerged in computing culture in the early 1990s to denote internet enthusiasts, and was later popularized in comic book culture as a common nickname for the superhero Spider-Man.

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