Meanings
nounRESTafarian (plural RESTafarians)
plural RESTafarians
- slangcomputingA programmer who uses REST (Representational State Transfer).
The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.
2005, David Paul Megginson, Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks, page 124
Origin
Blend of REST + Rastafarian.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
RESTafarian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/RESTafarian
MLA
“RESTafarian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/RESTafarian. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “RESTafarian,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/RESTafarian.
Source: RESTafarian on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.