Computer slang

Updated: 03/10/2024 by Computer Hope

Computer slang with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 250 terms like pipe, PEBKAC, bug, and phishing. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'G' to find terms like 'grey beard' in the 'G' section.

Chat slang, Computer acronyms
Top 10 slang terms
Fishing hook pulling a 5 Euro bill out of wallet

Pipe
Bar
Boot
PEBKAC
Box
Bug
Background
Hybrid computer
PW
Phishing

Number

0 day
404
1337

A
Away From Keyboard, abbreviated as AFK

Abandonware
Adware
AFK
All your base are belong to us
Apple tax
A/S/L
At scale

B
Example of a brick or old cell phone

Backdoor
Background
Bang
Bar
Barf
B/C
Bells and whistles
Big iron
Bitbucket
Black hat
Blagging
Bloatware
Blog
Bomb
Boot
Box
Brain dump
Breadcrumb trail
Brick
Bronie
Brute-force attack
BSOD
Bug
Bugfairy
Bunny suit
Burn
Butt dial
Bypass

C
Tin cans, plastic containers, and crumpled paper collage in the shape of a human face

Careware
CD rot
Charityware
Clickbait
Click of death
Cloak
Coaster
Coaster toaster
Coffee cup holder
Crack
Crackberry
Cracker
Crapintosh
Crapple
Crapplet
Crapware
Crash
Creepware
Cyber
Cybersex
Cyberspace

D
Computer dump

Dead
DFTT
DL
DM
Don't feed the trolls
Dot
Doxing
Dub-dub-dub
Dump
DVD rot

E
Emo icon

E-
Easter egg
EBCAK
EBKAC
Elite
EMO
Epic
Eq
ETA
Eternal September
Evercrack

F
Frozen computer hard drive

Fabless
Faceroll
Fanboy
Fanboy tax
FAQ
Farm
Fat finger
Female connector
Finsta
First life
Flame
Flame bait
Flame war
Flashbang
Flood
FML
Foo
Footprint
Frag
FRAM
Frankenmac
Freeware
Freeze
Fried
Friend
Friode
Frozen
Fry
FUBAR

G
Google Is Your Friend, abbreviated as GIYF

G
Gank
Gender
GG
Gib
Gig
GIYF
Glass house
Glitch
Grey beard
Griefer
Guiltware

H
Hunt and peck

Hack
Hacker
Hackintosh
Hang
Hardcore
Hehe
Hunt-and-peck
Hybrid computer

I

ID10T
Idle
IM
Inventory Tetris
IRL
iSheep
iTroll

J

Joe Job
Junkware

K

Killer app
KISS
Kk
Kludge
Kluge

L
1337 aka leet

Layer 8
Leach
Leech
Leet
Link
LLama
LOL
Loony bin
Loot
Lossy
Lurker
Lurking
Luser

M
Male connector

Macintrash
Male connector
Malware
Meatspace
Meme
MicroCrap
Micro$oft
MicroScrap
MicroShaft
MicroShafted
MicroSuck
MMO
Mouse potato

N

Nagware
Necroposting
Nerf
Net
Newbie
Normie
Notwork
NSFW

O
Owned in red lettering

Offline
OG
Ohnosecond
OMG
OP
Owned

P
Pipe and double pipe

Packet monkey
Patch
PEBCAC
PEBKAC
Phablet
Phishing
Phreak
PICNIC
Pics
Ping
Pipe
Pk
Player killer
PLBCAK
PLBKAC
Plug and pray
Plz
PM
PnP
Pocket dial
Porn mode
POS
Postcardware
Potato
Pr0n
Puck
PW
PWD
Pwn

Q

Currently, no listings.

R

RAT
Rickroll
Rig
Rip
RL
Rookie
RTDM
RTFM

S
Script kiddie

Script kiddie
Server farm
Sex
Shareware
Shebang
Sheeple
Shovelware
Skin
Slacktivism
Snail mail
Sneakernet
Spaghetti code
Spam
Splash screen
Splinternet
Spoof
Spyware
Swap

T
Three-finger salute

Technobabble
Thrashing
Three-finger salute
TL;DR
Toaster
TOS
Toxic
Trash 80
Trojan
Trojan horse
Troll

U

Uber

V

Vaporware
Viral
Vishing
Vlogging

W
Warez software CD in laptop disc drive tray

Walled garden
Wank
Warez
Webinar
Weblog
Web speak
Wetware
Whack
White hat
Widget
Winblows
Windoze
Wizard
Woot
Worm
Wow
WTF

X

Currently, no listings.

Y

YAUN

Z

Zap
Zero-day flaw
Zombie
ZOMG

Computer Dictionary