See silver surfer on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "A pun, combining an allusion to the typical silver colour of an elderly person's hair, and the notion of surfing the Internet, with the name of a comic-book character, The Silver Surfer.", "forms": [ { "form": "silver surfers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "silver surfer (plural silver surfers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "An elderly person who regularly uses the Internet." ], "id": "en-silver_surfer-en-noun-PYE0dKnT", "links": [ [ "elderly", "elderly" ], [ "Internet", "Internet" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) An elderly person who regularly uses the Internet." ], "tags": [ "informal" ] } ], "word": "silver surfer" }
{ "etymology_text": "A pun, combining an allusion to the typical silver colour of an elderly person's hair, and the notion of surfing the Internet, with the name of a comic-book character, The Silver Surfer.", "forms": [ { "form": "silver surfers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "silver surfer (plural silver surfers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "An elderly person who regularly uses the Internet." ], "links": [ [ "elderly", "elderly" ], [ "Internet", "Internet" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) An elderly person who regularly uses the Internet." ], "tags": [ "informal" ] } ], "word": "silver surfer" }
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