interblag

English

Etymology

Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2006 in his webcomic xkcd as a spoof of Internet jargon.[1] Equivalent to inter- +‎ blag (blog).

Proper noun

the interblag

  1. (colloquial, humorous) The Internet.
    • 2006 November 8, Randall Munroe, “Interblag”, in xkcd[1], archived from the original on 17 March 2023:
      I heard about it on the interblag!
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:interblag.

References

  1. ^ Randall Munroe (8 November 2006) “Interblag”, in xkcd