Meaning & use

interwebs

noun·Everyday

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A humorous, informal term for the internet.

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He blamed the outage on gremlins in the interwebs.

That meme has been circulating on the interwebs for years.

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A jokey pluralization of 'the Web,' popularized online in the early 2000s to poke fun at technological unfamiliarity.

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