Online Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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carebear n. The new word, an insult, is carebear. I was called a carebear today by someone who didn’t agree with my assessment of a game that I didn’t enjoy. I’ve also seen others use it directed at people who they don’t like. Such as: “U suk. Ur a carebear.” or: “U must b a carebear, cuz u suck.” [English Online Derogatory Slang] [full cite] (May. 14, 2004)

carrier deck n. Right now, 99% of the U.S. mobile content market is on carrier decks.…The next wave is off-deck—selling direct to consumers. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 21, 2006)

catasser n. There’s a term for people who involve themselves in virtual worlds at the expense of the real: catasser. It was coined by a fellow who let his cat suffer an unchanged litter box rather than pause his online gaming. His apartment took on the unpleasant odor of “cat ass” and the term took off. [English Online Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 21, 2006)

chicklet n. In addition to being able to create mobile version of their blogs, bloggers can create a personalized subscription button to their blog’s sidebar. The chicklet, as the subscription button is sometimes called, gives Windows Mobile users either online or offline access to their favorite blogs in an optimized version for their Windows Mobile device. [English Online] [full cite] (Aug. 1, 2006)

click-wrap n. “One who signs a contract is bound by a contract which he has an opportunity to read, whether he does so or not”…the judges who authored these words many decades ago certainly did not conceive of the possibility of them being extended to cover on-line agreements. They could not have also possibly contemplated the implication that this concept could be extended—first by the information technology industry itself, and second by the law courts of many countries to cover click-through agreements (often called “click-wrap” agreements). [English Law Online Technology] [full cite] (Nov. 8, 2006)

clickjacking n. Jeremiah started off with a brief introduction on what clickjacking is. In a nutshell, it’s when you visit a malicious website and the attacker is able to take control of the links that your browser visits. The problem affects all of the different browsers except something like lynx. The issue has nothing to do with JavaScript so turning JavaScript off in your browser will not help you. [English Online Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 25, 2008)

clickprint n. Almost certainly—and if you’re wondering what a clickprint is, it is “a unique pattern of web surfing behavior based on actions such as the number of pages viewed per session, the number of minutes spent on each page, the time or day of the week the page is visited, and so on.” That’s the description used by Professor Balaji Padmanabhan, at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Catherine Yang, of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. [English Online Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

clogger n. He is among a lively group of Cambodian bloggers—or “cloggers” as they call themselves—who are opening up this tiny, conservative country to the wider world and potentially bringing in unprecedented social change. [English Online] [full cite] (Jun. 18, 2008)

cloud n. He anticipates users will put their files on Fabrik—either on the Maxtor Fusion or “in the cloud,” as current parlance refers to online storage. [English Online Technology] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2006)

computon n. A computon is a measurement of usage that parallels the kilowatt-hour in an electric utility. HP Labs, he explains, is looking at the computon as a way to measure storage and other IT capacity, such as network resources and computer power. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 1, 2007)

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