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keyboard warrior (plural keyboard warriors)

1. (Internet slang, derogatory) A person who behaves aggressively or in an inflammatory manner in online textbased discussion media, but does not behave similarly in real life, potentially due to cowardice, introversion or shyness.

   Hypernym: troll

   Near-synonym: keyboard cowboy

   • 2018 February 21, Jeff Pearlman, “Parkland students, ignore the idiots”, in CNN‎:

     According to these keyboard warriors, the young men and women who survived the shooting are part of a big hoax, are liars, are mere cardboard cutouts – “crisis actors” who roam the country looking for mass shootings from which to promote their anti-gun message – all being pushed forward by the giant liberal machine that is Hillary Clinton’s robot attack army.

   • 2021 January 17, Kevin Roose, “A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 January 2021:

     Others are newer converts who have only a vague idea how it all connects. There are law-abiding keyboard warriors as well as violent, unhinged radicals.

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• keyboard army