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neckbeard

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From neck + beard.

noun neckbeards

  1. A style of facial hair wherein the beard is allowed to grow down the chin and is trimmed to an even length over the entirety of the face.
  2. derogatory, slang A socially-inept, male nerd, typically characterized as unkempt. Many front-end web developers may not have implemented a web service before, leaving that boring stuff to the neckbeards and the sysadmins.

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noun beard style

日本語ネックベアード nekkubeādo
हिन्दीगलमुच्छा galmucchā
DeutschNackenbart

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"neckbeard." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/neckbeard. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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neckbeard. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/neckbeard

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"neckbeard." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/neckbeard.

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@misc{neckbeard_2026,
  title = {neckbeard},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/neckbeard},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}