glasshole

G2L1A1S1S1H4O1L1E1

noun

A person who wears spectacle frames equipped with PDAs (especially with cameras) that display into the user's eyes, and who acts like a jerk or films inappropriately.

First used 2013Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounglasshole (plural glassholes)

plural glassholes · alternative glass-hole · alternative Glass-hole · alternative Glasshole

  1. derogatoryslangA person who wears spectacle frames equipped with PDAs (especially with cameras) that display into the user's eyes, and who acts like a jerk or films inappropriately.First known use 2013

    2013, Molly Klinefelter, Don’t Be a Google Glasshole: 10 Etiquette Tips, Laptop Magazine Put another way, there could be a lot of “Glassholes” out there.

    4 more examples

    No one likes a Glasshole because they are usually unpredictable in their actions.

    2014, Vamien McKalin, Hate Glassholes? Now you can jam their Wi-Fi connection and expose them, TechTimes

    Do “explore the world around you,” Google exhorts its users; on the other hand, don't “be creepy or rude (aka a 'Glasshole').” That Google recognizes the pejorative slang term “Glasshole” in its own documentation is telling, for it shows that […]

    2015, Tom Bruno, Wearable Technology: Smart Watches to Google Glass for Libraries, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 97

    […] and create a technology you wear like glasses—without looking like a glasshole […]

    2015, Rob Enderle, How the Windows Phone Could Rise Up and Dominate, Tech News World

    Google Glass became a status symbol too – of a rather different sort. The company’s “glassholes” probably put the field back by half a decade, as a status symbol inside tech became a red flag to passersby outside it.

    2023 June 6, Alex Hern, “TechScape: Is Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro more than just another tech toy for the rich?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin

Blend of glasses (“specs”) + asshole. From the behavior of Google Glass users, and similar spec-based camera-equipped PDAs with eye displays.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

glasshole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glasshole

MLA

“glasshole.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glasshole. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glasshole,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glasshole.

Source: glasshole on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.