cybercowboy

plural cybercowboys

1. literatureA character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in cyberspace.

   ...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.

   2000, Cutting Edge, Digital desires: language, identity and new technologies

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   Unlike the cyborg and cybercowboy, technoman Lenny is a sad figure who cannot move on. Despite Faith's rejections he loiters about the club where she works...

   2002, Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of fetishism: from decadence to the post-human

   ...ruthlessly competitive with each other, these corporations hire cybercowboys like Case to do this risky work for them.

   2003, Frederick Buell, From apocalypse to way of life: environmental crisis in the American century

2. informalAn Internet user.

   Within the week he upgraded his PC, got a modem, downloaded Netscape, and became a cybercowboy.

   2001, Jim Sterne, World Wide Web marketing

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   ...shares not a little with libertarian cybercowboys of the technosphere like John Barlow and Mitch Kapor...

   1995, Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, Constructing masculinity

   Synonyms: cybernaut, cybersurfer, netizen