Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wirehead

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wire-head
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who has an electronic brain implant.

noun

A person who takes part in wireheading.

noun

A hardware hacker.

noun

A person who likes to tinker with electronics.

verb

To artificially stimulate the brain to experience pleasure.

verb

To hack one's own reward channel.

Example Sentences

"He turns around and looks behind him. The wirehead he saw a few seconds ago is out in the open now, standing all by himself at the edge of a raft. Everyone else has cleared out of there."

Etymology

From wire + -head.

Inflected Forms

wireheads (plural) wireheads (present, singular) wireheading (participle, present) wireheaded (participle, past) wireheaded (past)

Derived Forms

wireheading

Questions

What does wirehead mean?: A person who has an electronic brain implant.
Where does wirehead come from?: From wire + -head.

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