webname

English

Etymology

From web +‎ name.

Noun

webname (plural webnames)

1. A pseudonym that one uses in an online forum or website.
   • 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 64:

     Maybe all the potential terrorists she ever identified were a ghostly as herself; other spooks in other offices, who were sending her own webname upstrem even as she was sending theirs.

   • 2014, Heather Inwood ·, Verse Going Viral: China's New Media Scenes, page 63:

     The poem can also be taken as an example of self-reflexivity in poetry, as the phrase “training piglets to fly in the sky” is, regardless of any metaphorical implications, the author's chosen webname.

   • 2015, Zachary Leader, On Life-Writing, page 254:

     Here he describes the aftermath of an erotic encounter with a man known only by his webname, 'builtlikeatruck', an encounter that culminated in his attempt to burn down his client's business: