keyboard warrior

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keyboard warrior (plural keyboard warriors)

1. (informal, derogatory) A person who behaves aggressively or in an inflammatory manner in online textbased discussion media, but at the same time does not behave similarly in real life, potentially due to cowardice, introversion or shyness.

   Hypernym: troll

   • 2021 January 17, Kevin Roose, “A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Others are newer converts who have only a vague idea how it all connects. There are law-abiding keyboard warriors as well as violent, unhinged radicals.

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• keyboard army

 

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  Mandarin: 鍵盤俠／键盘侠 (zh) (jiànpánxiá)

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