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PowerPointer

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English

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Etymology

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From PowerPoint +‎ -er.

Noun

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PowerPointer (plural PowerPointers)

  1. One who creates and/or delivers a presentation using PowerPoint or a similar Web-based slideshow product.
    • 2004, Public Understanding of Science - Volume 13, page 97:
      It has become impossible to attend a science lecture or demonstration without being subjected to the curse of the amateur PowerPointer.
    • 2006, Forbes - Volume 178, Issues 9-13, page 139:
      My kids bring home a lot of stuff like this, and I am confident they will grow up to be awesome PowerPointers. As adults they will pack all their reports with facts and pictures and give the chirpiest presentations.
    • 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, page 164:
      That middle income was the Goldilocks zone, the happy median ha ha, or so the PowerPointers claimed, but we shook our heads knowingly.