tech bro
/ˈtɛk.bɹoʊ̯/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.
Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "Fort Mason, a renovated military post on the bay, has been nicknamed “Frat Mason” for the 20-something “tech bros” — tech company salespeople, marketing employees and start-up founders — who have moved into luxury apartments there and play bocce on the great lawn."
- "“U.S.S. Callister” inverts this idea by having its tech-bro channel his resentment into fashioning his own personal matrix."
- "Are Tech Bros, as one Redditor claimed, members of a “hyper technocratic, libertarian…boys club”?"
- "A term that once mocked a particular Bay Area cultural phenomenon has become an all-purpose epithet. In the process, it has lost whatever analytic value and rhetorical punch it once had. If tech bros are everywhere, then they are nowhere."
- "No, Virginia, the combination of Trump’s tax cuts and tariffs don’t help and, yes, when the AI investment bubble pops GDP growth will drop making the deficit/GDP ratio worse, unless you believe the tech bros hype about AI suddenly delivering universal nirvana."
Etymology
From tech + bro (“a frat boy or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture”). Attested from the 2010s (see quotations below).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɛk.bɹoʊ̯/