brogrammer

English

Etymology

Blend of bro +‎ programmer.

Pronunciation

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Noun

brogrammer (plural brogrammers)

1. (slang) A male programmer who acts like and has the interests of a frat boy, defying stereotypical conceptions of programmers as shy and nerdy.
   • 2012 March 1, Douglas MacMillan, “The Rise of the 'Brogrammer'”, in Bloomberg Businessweek‎^[1]:

     At Santa Monica (Calif.)-based Gravity, engineering director Jim Plush is referred to as the “resident brogrammer” and has affixed his computer monitor to a treadmill so he can exercise two to three hours a day while programming.

   • 2012 April 12, Haya El Nasser, “Geek chic: 'Brogrammer?' Now, that's hot”, in USA Today‎^[2]:

     It started with the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Then came geek chic. Now, "brogrammers" — computer programmers with frat house sensibilities — are hitting the scene.

   • 2013 May 29, Dana Liebelson, “5 women busting through the tech industry's glass ceiling”, in The Week‎^[3]:

     Experts have pointed to Silicon Valley's "brogrammer" culture and a lack of female role models as contributing to the problem — but women are managing to make huge contributions to the field anyway.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:brogrammer.

Hypernyms

• tech bro