/b/tard

noun

A habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.

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noun/b/tard (plural /b/tards)

plural /b/tards · alternative b-tard

  1. Internet4chan slangA habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.

    not to sound insulting, but are you a /b/tard by any chance?

    2006 July 1, nikolai kingsley, rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <4gmmmbF1n9jlsU1@individual.net>
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    Poole’s efforts to rein in some of the chaos earned him scorn not just from the /b/tards but also from the largest collective of wired rebels in the world, Anonymous, which had first coalesced on 4chan around 2006 as a kind of inside joke (“Anonymous” is the default handle on 4chan).

    2015 March 13, David Kushner, “4chan’s Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away”, in Rolling Stone

    Slaughter, described by /b/tards as a "lulzcow ... whore," is now memorialized on Urban Dictionary as "The epitome of an eleven year old slut / poser / internet reject / scenecore wannabe."

    2015, Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, page 44

    Synonyms: /b/ro

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nounA habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.

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Origin

From /b/ - Random, an imageboard on 4chan. It combines a humorously censored version of bastard with /b/, while rhyming with retard. /b/ itself derives its name from the Futaba Channel (2chan) equivalent.

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/b/tard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%2Fb%2Ftard

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