cybertrash

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

cyber- +‎ trash

Noun[edit]

cybertrash (uncountable)

  1. trash on the Internet or in cyberspace
    • 1998, Bret Lott, The Hunt Club:
      Even Miss Dorcas here possesses information quite detrimental to my endeavors, and though you, Leland Dillard, are responsible for her sifting through cybertrash, that responsibility isn't enough []
    • 2003, David L. Baumer, Julius Carl Poindexter, Legal environment of business in the information age:
      Cybertrash in the form of SPAM[sic] (unsolicited email advertisements), fraudulent get-rich-quick schemes, pornography, and other Internet "pollution" continues to trouble legislators.
    • 2011, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael W. McLaughlin, Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants:
      A zine can't help your practice if it ends up in the cybertrash unopened.