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cybercowboy

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + cowboy.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as cowboy — “cow + boy”
  8. prefixed as cybercowboy — “cyber + cowboy”

Definitions

  1. A character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in…

    A character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in cyberspace.

    • ...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.
    • Unlike the cyborg and cybercowboy, technoman Lenny is a sad figure who cannot move on. Despite Faith's rejections he loiters about the club where she works...
    • ...ruthlessly competitive with each other, these corporations hire cybercowboys like Case to do this risky work for them.

  2. An Internet user.

    • ...shares not a little with libertarian cybercowboys of the technosphere like John Barlow and Mitch Kapor...
    • Within the week he upgraded his PC, got a modem, downloaded Netscape, and became a cybercowboy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cybercowboy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA