wirehead

A person who has an electronic brain implant.

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. - 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow...
  2. A hardware hacker.
  3. A person who likes to tinker with electronics.

Origin

Etymology tree English wire English -head English wirehead From wire + -head.

Forms

wireheads

Derived

wireheading