tech broとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Compound of tech +‎ bro (“a frat boy or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture”). Attested from 2010s (see quotations below).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈtɛk.bɹoʊ̯/

名詞

tech bro (plural tech bros)

1. (informal, neologism, sometimes derogatory) A hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.

   Hypernym: techie

   Hyponyms: brogrammer, cryptobro

   • 2013 November 24, Erica Goode, Claire Cain Miller, “Backlash by the Bay”, in New York Times‎:

     Fort Mason, a renovated military post on the bay, has been nicknamed “Frat Mason” for the 20-something “tech bros” — tech company salespeople, marketing employees and start-up founders — who have moved into luxury apartments there and play bocce on the great lawn.

   • 2017 December 30, James Poniewozik, “Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     “U.S.S. Callister” inverts this idea by having its tech-bro channel his resentment into fashioning his own personal matrix.

   • 2019 October, James Ross Gardner, “Who will mourn the tech bro?”, in Seattle Met‎:

     Are Tech Bros, as one Redditor claimed, members of a “hyper technocratic, libertarian…boys club”?

   • 2021 January 27, Gilad Edelman, “Stop calling everyone a tech bro”, in Wired‎:

     A term that once mocked a particular Bay Area cultural phenomenon has become an all-purpose epithet. In the process, it has lost whatever analytic value and rhetorical punch it once had. If tech bros are everywhere, then they are nowhere.

アナグラム

• botcher

発音

• (General American, MLE) IPA: /ˈtɛkbɹow/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA: /ˈtɛkbɹəw/

名詞

techbro (plural techbros)

1. (slang, typically derogatory) A bro (someone who espouses bro culture) involved in the tech industry.
   • 2022 February 14, Leah Asmelash and Scottie Andrew, “The anatomy of a romantic comedy”, in CNN‎:

     And this is one of the great powers of a sharp rom-com: It exists in a world similar to our own, but fantastical, too – one where you can date a techbro in New York City who’s actually tolerable.

   • 2025 February 21, Michael Rosch, “Techbros took the wrong lessons from science fiction”, in AIPT‎:

     Futurists envisioned these techbros would put us on the path to a better world. And yet now that several of these “innovators” wield immense power and influence within President Donald Trump’s White House, the United States has never seemed more like an empire in its final days.

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