Meanings
plural laptoppers · alternative laptoper
- informalOne who uses a laptop.
Amen. Laptoppers take up tables for two, and they don't ever leave.
2012 June 4, spamtrap1888, “Computers in restaurants and coffee shops”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Aug 20263 more examples
I am interested in discovering how many laptoppers actually use the battery feature of their machines.
1990 March 22, [Trevor Cradduck] <trevorc@uwovax.uwo.ca>, “Is your battery REALLY necessary?”, in comp.sys.laptops (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026The minimum resolution is 1024x768. You can't play it at 800x600 which has some laptoppers upset.
2001 October 10, John Lee, “civ3 questions”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026At Megacorp it's a mix. Some have laptops and others towers. I'm in the latter class. […] Employees that have work-at-home capability are expected to do so on those day, while those of us that don't can watch cartoons in our jammies. Now, I don't how many of the laptoppers actually do any work on the snow days, but they're supposed to.
2017 November 18, Default User [Brian], “Jeff Stahler (editorial cartoon): minor thing I noticed”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Aug 2026
Origin
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laptopper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laptopper
“laptopper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laptopper. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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