"webhead" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-webhead.ogg [Australia] Forms: webheads [plural]
Etymology: Web + -head Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Web|head}} Web + -head Head templates: {{en-noun}} webhead (plural webheads)
  1. (slang) An avid user of the World Wide Web. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-webhead-en-noun-ooZmRuk3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -head

Inflected forms

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