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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
techie
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I don't even bother trying to fix things that go wrong on my computer - I leave that to the techies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But what do techies know about business?
▪ Poor Gingrich, the techie who would give laptops to kids, reduced to a duct-tape interface.
▪ Sushi restaurants that cater to techies and tony taco bars overflow at lunchtime.
▪ These also masquerade under the techie names of 10Base-5, 10Base-2 and 10Base-T respectively.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
techie

one well-versed in the latest technology, by 1984.

Wiktionary
techie

n. 1 (context informal English) One who works with, or has an interest in, technology or computers. 2 (context informal English) A person who works on the technical side of events.

WordNet
techie

n. a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing) [syn: tekki]

Usage examples of "techie".

The fullback began asking a long question of one techie as I reached Smith and she looked up at me.

They worked as a team, speaking in half-sentences, using techie jargon unintelligible to the layman.

The techie looked as if crapping his underwear was a definite possibility.

The music, some weird hollow techie stuff that sounded like bombs going off in echo-chambers, started to make a different kind of sense.

Everyone knew his story--about how he dropped out of CalTech when he was eighteen, lived in a communal house with his techie friends, started Systematix out of a garage.

The techies had the laptop up and running, the cursor blinking on a line that awaited the necessary password.

When he finally returned to the back room, the techies were standing there anxiously awaiting him.

The techies might eventually match fiber from his clothes to one or more of the crime scenes, but Rudolph is unbelievably careful.

A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene.

By the way, tell the techies to be precise when they zoom the plane back in.

Hackers do propagandize, but only among themselves, mostly in giddy, badly spelled manifestos of class warfare, youth rebellion or naive techie utopianism.