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A webhead is a person who spends a lot of time on the Internet and is good at it — someone who knows where things are, how to find them, and how the online world works. The '-head' ending here means a fan or someone deeply into something, the same way we say a metalhead loves metal music or a gearhead loves cars. So a webhead is not just any user; it suggests real enthusiasm and some skill. The word feels informal and a bit dated now. It came from the 1990s, when being on the Internet a lot was still unusual enough to need its own name. Today almost everyone is online all day, so calling someone a webhead sounds a little funny, like calling someone a 'telephone person'. You will still meet it in older articles, and sometimes people use it . One more thing, though: 'Webhead' is also a nickname for Spider-Man, because of his webs. If a student sees the word in a comic or a film, that is probably the meaning, not the Internet one.
網路達人、網蟲(老一點的說法,帶點「很懂上網、天天泡在網路上」的意思)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
webheadnoun
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slangAn avid user of the World Wide Web.
- He and Gitanas went to a pub called Prie Universiteto and hired five young Lithuanians in Phish and R.E.M. T-shirts for thirty dollars a day plus millions of worthless stock options, and for a month Chip rode these slang-slinging Webheads mercilessly. He made them study American sites like nbci.com and Oracle. He told them to do it like this, to make it look like this.
- To them, just being a webhead or computer geek is not enough. The culture has its own subsections […]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。