English

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Etymology

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From mega- +‎ hype.

Noun

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megahype (uncountable)

  1. Extreme hype.
    • 2004, Marshall William Fishwick, Probing popular culture on and off the Internet, page 179:
      When we look for signs of what awaits us in cyberspace, we realize that what we have already got, in addition to mountains of undigested facts, is megahype, the vastly optimistic exaggeration about the power and wizardry of computers.