Citations:millionerd

English citations of millionerd

Noun: "a wealthy nerd, especially one whose fortune was made in technology"

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• 1996 — Robert Haught, "Clinton and Dole Might Not Be All That Popular in Libya Either", Daily Oklahoman, 1 February 1996:

  When a millionerd like Steve Forbes can bring excitement to the Republican presidential nomination contest, anything is believable.

• 1998 — Franklin Foer, "Time to re-evaluate the nerd and the nebbish: who's the bigger loser?", The Baltimore Sun, 20 July 1998:

  With their entry into new high-tech industries, many nerds suddenly became millionerds.

• 1998 — Steven Johnson, "The soul encoded," Harper's Magazine, September 1998:

  You'd think a processing superpower like this would be off-limits to everyone but grad students, millionerds, and astrophysicists, but the surprising truth is that you can tap the cognitive resources of this machine via an ordinary Web connection, as thousands of casual suffers do every day.

• 1999 — Howard Fineman, "Watch Your Back", Newsweek, 14 March 1999:

  On his first presidential fund-raising trip, Gore was feted at three parties in three hours: by blacks in the entertainment industry, high-tech millionerds and Wall Street machers at the palatial apartment of Lazard Freres executive Steve Rattner.

• 1999 — Kitty Thuemer, "Extreme Travel Trivia", The Washington Post, 26 December 1999:

  Let's face it, most of us are sitting slack-jawed on the sidelines while the new economy produces "millionerds" overnight.

• 2005 — Dan Levine, Avant Guide Chicago: Insiders' Guide to Progressive Culture, Empire Press (2005), →ISBN:

  Sure, both restaurants attract middle-aged millionerds, but while Gibsons is lower-chakra, Hugo's is lower-key, easier-to-get-into, and is known for seafood rather than steak (though, in truth, you can get the same meats here too).

• 2012 — Andy Goldberg, "New 'Millionerds'", Manila Bulletin, 8 February 2012:

  "For so many of them, owning a Porsche was a dream from when they were little," the local Porsche dealer said of the new Silicon Valley millionaires, sometimes called "millionerds" because of their techy roots.