keyboard warrior

[ kee-bawrd wawr-ee-er, wor‐, kee-bohrd ]

/ ˈkiˌbɔrd ˌwɔr i ər, ˌwɒr‐, ˈkiˌboʊrd /

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noun Informal.

a person who posts highly opinionated text and images online in an aggressive or abusive manner, often without revealing his or her own identity.

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Origin of keyboard warrior

First recorded in 2005–10

Words nearby keyboard warrior

Kewpie Doll, kex, key, keyboard, keyboardist, keyboard warrior, key card, key case, key club, Key deer, key drive

How to use keyboard warrior in a sentence

The general public has never paid much attention to his music, but other pianists know what this man can do at the keyboard.
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But the proud stone lion that once stood atop the tomb, as Peristeri has often maintained, suggests a male occupant and a warrior.
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Along the way, she discovers the fearless warrior that her mother knew was inside her all along.
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Inhofe is not just a climate-change denier; he is a warrior for corporate-funded half-truths and outright lies.
If You Think D.C. Is Awful Now, Wait Until Wednesday|Jonathan Alter|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Partly this is tradition as old as the history of warrior Islam.
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He was a distinguished warrior under Francis I, mortally wounded at the battle of Marignan.
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But in the end his health gave way, and the Emperor himself wrote to Prince Eugne telling him to send the old warrior home.
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Its pages are filled with the purple gowns of kings and the scarlet trappings of the warrior.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Nicholson and John Lawrence were there; could they hold those warrior-tribes in subjection, or, better still, in leash?
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
The keyboard had eleven, twelve, even thirteen keys in diatonic succession without semitones.
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