A rare, humorous mispronunciation or misspelling of 'computer,' typically used for comic effect — either to mock someone unfamiliar with technology or to playfully signal one's own tech illiteracy.
A rare, humorous mispronunciation or misspelling of 'computer,' typically used for comic effect — either to mock someone unfamiliar with technology or to playfully signal one's own tech illiteracy. The word has an endearing, bumbling quality that makes it useful as light satire.
'I've been having trouble with my compuper again,' his gran announced at dinner, sliding the laptop across the table.
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(British, colloquial) A man who concocts or massively exaggerates a military service record for himself, usually claiming membership of the special forces.
(internet slang) A bad or poorly functioning laptop computer that is undesirable to use.
A playful, mock-technical term for the internet, treating it like it's built from actual physical particles called 'trons'. It's the kind of word you'd use when poking gentle fun at tech jargon or pretending to be baffled by modern technology. Most at home in humorous online posts or among people who enjoy joking about how mysterious and magical the web seems to non-techies. It gives 'I'll ask the intertrons' a wonderfully absurd charm.
A humorous slang term for the internet, using the '-trons' suffix to make it sound like a piece of fictional sci-fi technology. The word plays on the tendency to add '-tron' or '-trons' to words to sound futuristic or absurdly technical. Used affectionately or sarcastically to mock the mystification of internet technology by people who treat it as inexplicable magic.
(slang, rare, humorous) A computer.